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  • verb Present participle of grep.

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Examples

  • Well, for the 17 Security agencies currently grepping this email, I will tell you this:

    catpewk Diary Entry catpewk 2005

  • I couldn't find any trace of it in the runlogs, even grepping on strings from the player's log that -should- have appeared in the runlog.

    Cat Rambo catrambo 2003

  • Gibson is one of those writers who I occasionally would like to be a little less talented, as some of his work feels as though he's been grepping through my head looking for stuff to use all the way down to the combination of Mac Cubes and mannequins in this one.

    Pattern Recognition badger 2003

  • As you might imagine, grepping for " " is rather difficult!

    Site Home vcblog 2011

  • LaunchApp can usually be checked by grepping for KRun. there are exceptions, though - battery uses KToolInvocation:: kdeinitExec. it's always good to play with the actual plasmoid a bit if you can't remember every single feature it has.

    KDE TechBase - Recent changes [en] 2010

  • LaunchApp can usually be checked by grepping for KRun. there are exceptions, though - battery uses KToolInvocation:: kdeinitExec. it's always good to play with the actual plasmoid a bit if you can't remember every single feature it has.

    KDE TechBase - Recent changes [en] PhreakOnALeash 2010

  • He also raised the issue of developers breaking up strings across lines and causing various grepping tools to break.

    LXer Linux News Jon Masters 2010

  • LaunchApp can usually be checked by grepping for KRun. there are exceptions, though - battery uses KToolInvocation:: kdeinitExec. it's always good to play with the actual plasmoid a bit if you can't remember every single feature it has.

    KDE TechBase - Recent changes [en] 2010

  • He also raised the issue of developers breaking up strings across lines and causing various grepping tools to break.

    LXer Linux News Jon Masters 2010

  • LaunchApp can usually be checked by grepping for KRun. there are exceptions, though - battery uses KToolInvocation:: kdeinitExec. it's always good to play with the actual plasmoid a bit if you can't remember every single feature it has.

    KDE TechBase - Recent changes [en] 2010

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