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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://www.gnu.org/software/grep/ GNU grep] — the grep that usually comes with Linux distributions
 
*[http://unixhelp.ed.ac.uk/CGI/man-cgi?grep GNU grep] man page
 
*[http://unixhelp.ed.ac.uk/CGI/man-cgi?grep GNU grep] man page
 
*[http://www.linfo.org/grep.html The grep Command] - by The Linux Information Project (LINFO)
 
*[http://www.linfo.org/grep.html The grep Command] - by The Linux Information Project (LINFO)

Revision as of 03:55, 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

  • agrepapproximate grep to facilitate fuzzy string searching
  • fgrep — fixed pattern searches
  • egrep — for searches involving more sophisticated regular expression syntax
  • ngrepnetwork grep
  • rgreprecursive 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

Other

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