Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗verb
To use a program such as grep to search in a file. · To search anything (perhaps a paper document by eye).
name
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryA program which selects lines in a file which match a given pattern.
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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