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/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - Rhymes: -ɛp
Verb
grep (third-person singular simple present greps, present participle grepping, simple past and past participle grepped)
- (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 forsshd
will give a similar output to this: […]
- (by extension) To search anything (perhaps a paper document by eye).
Derived terms
Translations
Further reading
- Eric S[teven] Raymond, editor (2003 December 29), “grep”, in The Jargon File, version 4.4.7.
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]
Related terms
- gërreç
- zgrip
References
- Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “grep”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 123
Japanese
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ɡɯ̟ᵝɾe̞p̚pɯ̟ᵝ]
Noun
grep • (gureppu)
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Conjugation
Katsuyōkei ("stem forms") | ||||
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Mizenkei ("imperfective") | grepし | グレップし | gureppu shi | |
Ren’yōkei ("continuative") | grepし | グレップし | gureppu shi | |
Shūshikei ("terminal") | grepする | グレップする | gureppu suru | |
Rentaikei ("attributive") | grepする | グレップする | gureppu suru | |
Kateikei ("hypothetical") | grepすれ | グレップすれ | gureppu sure | |
Meireikei ("imperative") | grepせよ¹ grepしろ² |
グレップせよ¹ グレップしろ² |
gureppu seyo¹ gureppu shiro² | |
Key constructions | ||||
Passive | grepされる | グレップされる | gureppu sareru | |
Causative | grepさせる grepさす |
グレップさせる グレップさす |
gureppu saseru gureppu sasu | |
Potential | grepできる | グレップできる | gureppu dekiru | |
Volitional | grepしよう | グレップしよう | gureppu shiyō | |
Negative | grepしない | グレップしない | gureppu shinai | |
Negative continuative | grepせず | グレップせず | gureppu sezu | |
Formal | grepします | グレップします | gureppu shimasu | |
Perfective | grepした | グレップした | gureppu shita | |
Conjunctive | grepして | グレップして | gureppu shite | |
Hypothetical conditional | grepすれば | グレップすれば | gureppu sureba | |
¹ Written imperative ² Spoken imperative |
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology 1
From the verb gripe.
Alternative forms
References
- “grep” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From the verb gripe.
References
- “grep” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Romanian
Etymology
Clipping of grepfrut.
Swedish
Etymology
From Old Norse greip, from Proto-Germanic *graipō.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɡreːp/
Audio (file)
Noun
grep c
- 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