Meaning

2 senses
  1. To use a program such as grep to search in a file.

    You can't grep dead trees.

    greppen

    грепатьgrepatʹ, грепнутьgrepnutʹ

  2. (broadly)To search anything (perhaps a paper document by eye).

Translations

2 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
use the program grep:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
use the program grep:

Origin

From an idiomatic command sequence in the qed and ed text editors: ‘g/re/p’, meaning: glob

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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Forms

greps, grepping, grepped, grepped
Base formgrep · to grep
3rd person singulargreps
Present participlegrepping
Past simplegrepped
Past participlegrepped

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theygrep
he, she, itgreps

Past simpleLesson

all personsgrepped

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave grepped
he, she, ithas grepped

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill grep

Word family

1 related words
Derivedgreppable

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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