Definitions
Etymologies
- From an idiomatic command sequence in the qed and ed text editors: ‘g/re/p’, meaning: globally search for a regular expression and print. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“I found a number of programs here on Code Project that emulated grep or called grep from the command line, but while intriguing, were not what I wanted.”
“SCHEMA = "prd_schema" # Change this to your schema name grep "ORA -" $LOGFILE > $CURR if! diff $PREV $CURR then”
“The following utilities return 0 upon success. echo touch mv cp mkdir rm hostname grep returns 0 if the pattern is found, 1 if not found, and 2 on error”
“/etc/init. d call grep at least 77 times. awk is called 92 times, cut 23 and sed 74.”
“Track House And Senate Votes On Twitter (September 25th, 2008) alias grep = 'GREP_COLOR = "1; 37; 41" LANG = C grep -- color = auto' var selection; if (window. getSelection) selection = window. getSelection (); else if (document. selection) selection = document. selection.createRange (); document. observe ( "dblclick", function () );”
“- Review and comment on proposed bills before they are even introduced†"or while they are pendingâ€" in Congress. alias grep = 'GREP_COLOR = "1; 37; 41" LANG = C grep -- color = auto' var selection; if (window. getSelection) selection = window. getSelection (); else if (document. selection) selection = document. selection.createRange (); document. observe ( "dblclick", function () );”
“Hippix (Hippo Software; consult file pub/hippo/press. txt, available via anonymous ftp from morgan. cs.utah.edu, for more information) provides a set of low cost Unix-like command utilities (such as grep, awk, sh, and vi) along with a POSIX programming library.”
“After that, I changed my approach to the one on line #78: I pipe the address into "grep" and use the content of $DENY_DB as the list of regular expressions to check against that string.”
“However, there's a larger problem here: you don't need to build a state machine to determine whether your messages contain one of the above subjects - you can just use 'grep', or (my preferred method) a hash lookup.”
“Incidentally, note the commented-out line (#77): originally, I used the email address as the "grep" search string and the file as the source, and if the string was found in the file, then that was the end of it.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘grep’.
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Babble Tech
Go Babble! Words, if you can call them that, from the world of technology and computers. I'll try to make sure each one is represented by a Wordnik example.
cifsiostat, nfsiostat, mpstat, iostat, pidstat, sar, sysstat, cron, fetchmail, zypper, mysqldump, rsync and 102 more...
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INTERP - terminology management terms
Terms from the fields of terminology, lexicography, lexicology and corpus linguistics
reworder, rewording, parser, parsing, tagger, tagging, aligner, aligning, content analysis, content analyzer, corpus management, glossary and 546 more...
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bkerr's Words
wyrd, absinthe, homunculus, zorkmid, informon, decider, diachronic, frak, hwæt, feldercarb, yawp, dogfooding and 540 more...
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dann's words
just some nice words that i like.
beamish, snark, sundry, contrariwise, salsify, cephalopod, omphaloskepsis, grok, resistentialism, peristerophobia, aglet, ferrule and 125 more...
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sionnach's Words
contumely, fomite, holmgang, poltroon, eleemosynary, obsidian, nugatory, grindcore, felch, recrudescent, pyx, parenteral and 3271 more...
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wolfson's Words
cicisbeo, animadversion, drupe, callipygian, rhadamanthine, poetaster, philosophaster, grammaticaster, lacuna, infralapsarian, incunabula, logorrhea and 142 more...
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seanahan's Words
lacustrine, indubitably, masala, balustrade, arcane, gambit, bagatelle, demonstrative, epicaricacy, cacophony, archetype, picaresque and 418 more...
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(In)action Words
New verbs for the internet age. No physical activity required.
digg, fark, slashdot, blog, favorite, text, email, hotlink, defrag, facebook, im, debug and 27 more...
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Regular Expressions
Words dealing with the art of regular expressions.
lazy, greedy, grep, algebra, regex, syntax, string, perl, sed, posix, pattern, alternation and 6 more...
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Math, Science, Medicine,Computers
coalesce, transit, polynomial, binomial, circadian, nuclear, javascript, ecmascript, rss, ajax, trepanning, mundaneum and 15 more...
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from
these words are permanently linked in my mind with a particular context, or are made-up words from books and the like. e.g. esteekers is from a kids' book called Sahara Special.
apostasy, esteekers, rueful, scrooch, hegemony, slinkster, pudge, bufrido, grep, qwghlm, praxis, crux and 30 more...
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groks's Words
grok, filibuster, inchpractice, merkin, grep, attackle, spackling
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jey's Words
clerestory, outwith, sublunary, machair, luskentyre, antisyzygy, narthex, halyard, anegada, hebrides, schiehallion, quiraing and 53 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for grep.

seanahan Much more useful as a verb than a noun. Dec 13, 2006
bkerr means: I know I put the damn keys in here somewhere... Dec 13, 2006