Difference between revisions of "Grep"
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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== | ||
| + | *[http://www.gnu.org/software/grep/ GNU grep] - the grep that usually comes with [[Linux distribution]]s | ||
| + | *[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://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 | ||
| + | *[http://stts.se/index.php?lang_id=en_uk&page=egrep Egrep for linguists] — an introduction to egrep. | ||
| + | *[http://tony.abou-assaleh.net/GREPs Tony Abou-Assaleh's list of Greps] | ||
| + | *[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
- GNU grep - the grep that usually comes with Linux distributions
- GNU grep man page
- The grep Command - by The Linux Information Project (LINFO)
- "The Treacherous Optimization" — article on tradeoffs in grep to favor best-case over worst-case scenarios
- Egrep for linguists — an introduction to egrep.
- Tony Abou-Assaleh's list of Greps
- TCGrep
