grep

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ɡɹɛp/
  • Audio (Southern England):(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɛp

Proper noun

grep

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

Verb

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 [] , 2nd 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).

Derived terms

Translations

Further reading

Anagrams

Albanian

Alternative forms

  • grap, gërepë, gërjepë

Etymology

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]

Noun

grep m

  1. hook, fishhook

Declension

Declension of grep
singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative grep grepi grepa grepat
accusative grepin
dative grepi grepit grepave grepave
ablative grepash

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “grep”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 123

Further reading

  • grep”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006
  • FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎[1], 1980
  • Newmark, L. (1999) “grep”, in Oxford Albanian-English Dictionary[2]

Czech

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈɡrɛp]

Noun

grep n

  1. (informal) grapefruit

Declension

Japanese

Etymology

Borrowed from English grep.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ɡɯ̟ɾe̞p̚pɯ̟]

Noun

grep(グレップ) • (gureppu

  1. This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

Verb

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

  1. to

Conjugation

Marshallese

Etymology

From English grape.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

grep

  1. grape; raisin
  2. vine
  3. vineyard

References

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From the verb gripe.

Noun

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

  1. a grasp, grip.

Etymology 2

Alternative forms

Verb

grep

  1. simple past of gripe.

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From the verb gripe.

Noun

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

  1. a grasp, grip.

References

Old English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡreːp/

Noun

grēp f

  1. furrow, burrow

Romanian

Etymology

Clipping of grepfrut.

Noun

grep n (plural grepuri)

  1. grapefruit

Declension

Declension of grep
singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative-accusative grep grepul grepuri grepurile
genitive-dative grep grepului grepuri grepurilor
vocative grepule grepurilor

Swedish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡreːp/
  • Audio:(file)

Noun

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

Declension

Verb

grep

  1. past indicative of gripa