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

• greppable

Translations

use the program grep

• Dutch: greppen
• Finnish: grepata
• German: greppen
• Japanese: grepする

search anything

• Dutch: greppen, zoeken (nl)

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• preg

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.

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

• grremç, gërrefshë, gërraç

Related terms

• gërreç
• zgrip

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

Declension of grep (hard masculine inanimate)

	singular	plural
nominative	grep	grepy
genitive	grepu	grepů
dative	grepu	grepům
accusative	grep	grepy
vocative	grepe	grepy
locative	grepu	grepech
instrumental	grepem	grepy

Japanese

Etymology

Borrowed from English grep.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ɡɯ̟ɾe̞p̚pɯ̟]

Noun

grep(グレップ) • (gureppu) 

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Verb

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

Conjugation

Conjugation of "grepする" (See Appendix:Japanese verbs)

Katsuyōkei ("stem forms")
Mizenkei ("imperfective")	grepし	グレップし	gureppu shi
Ren’yōkei ("continuative")	grepし	グレップし	gureppu shi
Shūshikei ("terminal")	grepする	グレップする	gureppu suru
Rentaikei ("attributive")	grepする	グレップする	gureppu suru
Kateikei ("hypothetical")	grepすれ	グレップすれ	gureppu sure
Meireikei ("imperative")	grepせよ¹ grepしろ²	グレップせよ¹ グレップしろ²	gureppu seyo¹ gureppu shiro²
Key constructions
Passive	grepされる	グレップされる	gureppu sareru
Causative	grepさせる grepさす	グレップさせる グレップさす	gureppu saseru gureppu sasu
Potential	grepできる	グレップできる	gureppu dekiru
Volitional	grepしよう	グレップしよう	gureppu shiyō
Negative	grepしない	グレップしない	gureppu shinai
Negative continuative	grepせず	グレップせず	gureppu sezu
Formal	grepします	グレップします	gureppu shimasu
Perfective	grepした	グレップした	gureppu shita
Conjunctive	grepして	グレップして	gureppu shite
Hypothetical conditional	grepすれば	グレップすれば	gureppu sureba
¹ Written imperative ² Spoken imperative

Marshallese

Etymology

From English grape.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

grep

1. grape; raisin
2. vine
3. vineyard

Related terms

• kūreep

References

• "grep" in The Dictionary at Marshallese.org

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

• greip

Verb

grep

1. simple past of gripe.

References

• “grep” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From the verb gripe.

Noun

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

1. a grasp, grip.

References

• “grep” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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

	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

Declension of grep

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	grep	greps
	definite	grepen	grepens
plural	indefinite	grepar	grepars
	definite	greparna	greparnas

Verb

grep

1. past indicative of gripa