grep in English

noun
1
a Unix command used to search files for the occurrence of a string of characters that matches a specified pattern.
This utility will search through your mail log file using grep and display important statistics gleaned from that file: largest messages, source of most messages, etc.
verb
1
search for (a string of characters) using grep.
It's not too hard to grep the logs for ‘error’ or ‘warning’ and include that in the email, too.

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1. The user can easily perform many types of searching, replacing and report generating tasks by using Awk, grep and sed commands. Awk is not just a command

2. Moreover, ad hoc tools like grep, while very efficient at what they do, need to check the entire contents of large files each time a search is performed.

3. The "code review audit script scanner" (Crass) started as a source code grep-er with a set of selected high-potential strings that may result in (security) problems

4. You should pipe things like 'man Bash' into grep with the -C argument set to something reasonable, it's a really useful skill – djdanlib Apr 3 '12 at 14:41 6 The question linked (that this question is a duplicate of) was asked 2 years after this question