grep

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ɡɹɛp/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -ɛp

Proper noun

grep

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

Verb

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).

Derived terms

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Anagrams

Albanian

Alternative forms

  • grap, gërepë, gërjepë

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *grep- (hook), from *gremb- (crooked, uneven), ultimately from *ger- (to turn, bend, twist) (cf. English grapple, Old French grape, grappe, crape (hook), Norwegian grep (grasp)). Alternatively a contraction of variant gërepë, from archaic and dialectal gërjepë, from Proto-Albanian *ga-repa, from *repa (to peel, tear off) (modern rrjep). More at rrjep.[1]

Noun

grep m

  1. hook, fishhook

Derived terms

References

  1. Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “grep”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 123

Czech

Noun

grep n

  1. (informal) grapefruit

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Japanese

Etymology

Borrowed from English grep.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ɡɯ̟ᵝɾe̞p̚pɯ̟ᵝ]

Noun

grep(グレップ) • (gureppu) 

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Verb

grep(グレップ)する • (gureppu suru) suru (stem grep(グレップ) (gureppu shi), past grep(グレップ)した (gureppu shita))

  1. to grep

Conjugation

Marshallese

Etymology

From English grape.

Pronunciation

  • (phonetic) IPA(key): [ŋʌpʲ]
  • (phonemic) IPA(key): /ŋɛpʲ/
  • Bender phonemes: {gep}

Noun

grep

  1. grape; raisin
  2. vine
  3. vineyard

References

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From the verb gripe.

Noun

grep n (definite singular grepet, indefinite plural grep, definite plural grepa or grepene)

  1. a grasp, grip.

Alternative forms

Verb

grep

  1. simple past of gripe.

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From the verb gripe.

Noun

grep n (definite singular grepet, indefinite plural grep, definite plural grepa)

  1. a grasp, grip.

References

Romanian

Etymology

Clipping of grepfrut.

Noun

grep n (plural grepuri)

  1. grapefruit

Declension

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse greip, from Proto-Germanic *graipō.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡreːp/
  • (file)

Noun

grep c

  1. garden fork, graip – a tool, resembling a pitchfork but where both handle and prongs are shorter and sturdier, and which is used more for digging than lifting

Declension

Declension of grep 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative grep grepen grepar greparna
Genitive greps grepens grepars greparnas

Verb

grep

  1. past indicative of gripa
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