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*rexgrep — GUI frontend to grep
 
*rexgrep — GUI frontend to grep
 
*webgrep — a set of 7 search utilities for web-masters
 
*webgrep — a set of 7 search utilities for web-masters
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==External links==
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*[http://www.gnu.org/software/grep/ GNU grep] - the grep that usually comes with [[Linux distribution]]s
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*[http://unixhelp.ed.ac.uk/CGI/man-cgi?grep GNU grep] man page
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*[http://www.linfo.org/grep.html The grep Command] - by The Linux Information Project (LINFO)
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*[http://ridiculousfish.com/blog/archives/2006/05/30/old-age-and-treachery/ "The Treacherous Optimization"] — article on tradeoffs in grep to favor best-case over worst-case scenarios
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*[http://stts.se/index.php?lang_id=en_uk&page=egrep Egrep for linguists] — an introduction to egrep.
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*[http://tony.abou-assaleh.net/GREPs Tony Abou-Assaleh's list of Greps]
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*[http://search.cpan.org/src/CWEST/ppt-0.14/html/commands/grep/tcgrep.html TCGrep]
  
 
[[Category:Linux Command Line Tools]]
 
[[Category:Linux Command Line Tools]]

Revision as of 03:42, 14 April 2008

grep (Global Regular Expression Print) is a command line utility that for a given a list of files or standard input to read, grep searches for lines of text that match one or many regular expressions, and outputs only the matching lines.

See also

  • agrep — approximate grep to facilitate fuzzy string searching
  • fgrep — fixed pattern searches
  • egrep — for searches involving more sophisticated regular expression syntax
  • ngrep — network grep
  • rgrep — recursive grep
  • pgrep — displays the processes whose names match a regular expression
  • ugrep &mdsah; only do basic regexp string matching
  • tcgrep — rewrite of grep which uses Perl regular expression syntax
  • apachegrep — a Perl program to help webmasters go through their apache logs
  • rexgrep — GUI frontend to grep
  • webgrep — a set of 7 search utilities for web-masters

External links