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/

• Audio (Southern England)

  (file)

• 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. (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 […] , second 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).

• greppable

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

• 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

grep n

1. (informal) grapefruit

Borrowed from English grep.

• IPA^(key): [ɡɯ̟ᵝɾe̞p̚pɯ̟ᵝ]

grep(グレップ) • (gureppu) 

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grep(グレップ)する • (gureppu suru) suru (stem grep(グレップ)し (gureppu shi), past grep(グレップ)した (gureppu shita))

1. to grep

From English grape.

• (phonetic) IPA^(key): [ŋʌpʲ]
• (phonemic) IPA^(key): /ŋɛpʲ/
• Bender phonemes: {gep}

grep

1. grape; raisin
2. vine
3. vineyard

• kūreep

• "grep" in The Dictionary at Marshallese.org

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.

Clipping of grepfrut.

grep n (plural grepuri)

1. grapefruit

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.