grep

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English

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Etymology

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

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Proper noun

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grep

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

Verb

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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).

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Albanian

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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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

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grep m

  1. hook, fishhook

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References

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

Czech

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Noun

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grep n

  1. (informal) grapefruit

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Japanese

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English grep.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ɡɯ̟ɾe̞p̚pɯ̟]

Noun

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grep(グレップ) (gureppu

  1. This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

Verb

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

  1. to grep

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Marshallese

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Etymology

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From English grape.

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Noun

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grep

  1. grape; raisin
  2. vine
  3. vineyard
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Norwegian Bokmål

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Etymology 1

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From the verb gripe.

Noun

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

  1. a grasp, grip.

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Verb

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grep

  1. simple past of gripe.

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Norwegian Nynorsk

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Etymology

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From the verb gripe.

Noun

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

  1. a grasp, grip.

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Old English

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Noun

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grēp f

  1. furrow, burrow

Romanian

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Etymology

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Clipping of grepfrut.

Noun

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grep n (plural grepuri)

  1. grapefruit

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singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative-accusative grep grepul grepuri grepurile
genitive-dative grep grepului grepuri grepurilor
vocative grepule grepurilor

Swedish

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Etymology

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

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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

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Verb

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grep

  1. past indicative of gripa