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語源

From an idiomatic command sequence in the qed and ed text editors: ‘g/re/p’, meaning: globally search for a regular expression and print.

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ɡɹɛp/
• 韻: -ɛp

固有名詞

grep

1. A program which selects lines in a file which match a given pattern.

動詞

grep (third-person singular simple present greps, present participle grepping, simple past and past participle grepped)

1. (computing) To use a program such as grep to search in a file.

   You can't grep dead trees.

   • 2019, Kamesh Ganesan, Rithin Skaria, Frederik Vos, Hands-On Linux Administration on Azure […] , 2nd edition, Packt Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, page 293:

     Running netstat and grepping for sshd will give a similar output to this: […]

2. (by extension) To search anything (perhaps a paper document by eye).

派生語

• greppable

Further reading

• Eric S[teven] Raymond, editor (29 December 2003), “grep”, in The Jargon File, version 4.4.7.

アナグラム

• preg

名詞

grēp f

1. furrow, burrow