grep

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

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

grep

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

grep (third-person singular simple present greps, present participle grepping, simple past and past participle grepped)

1. To use a program such as grep to search in a file.
2. By extension, to search anything (perhaps a paper document by eye).

• greppable

• “grep” in Eric S[teven] Raymond, editor, The Jargon File, version 4.4.7, 29 December 2003.

• preg

• grap, gërepë, gërjepë

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].

grep m

1. hook, fishhook

• grremç, gërrefshë, gërraç

• gërreç
• zgrip

From the verb gripe

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

1. a grasp, grip.

• greip

grep

1. simple past of gripe.

• “grep” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From the verb gripe

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

1. a grasp, grip.

• “grep” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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

• IPA^(key): /ɡreːp/

• Audio

  (file)

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

grep

1. past tense of gripa.