GNU Grep

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GNU Grep is the GNU Project’s free, open-source implementation of the grep command-line utility used for fast text searching and pattern matching in files.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf command-line utility
free software
open-source software
software
text search tool
commandName egrep
fgrep
grep
conformsTo POSIX grep specification
developer Free Software Foundation
distribution GNU core utilities
most GNU/Linux distributions
feature binary file detection
byte offset display
colorized output
context line display
count matches only
file name only output
ignore case option
inverted match
line number display
locale-aware searching
multibyte character support
null-terminated output
pattern files support
recursive search
word-regexp option
implements grep command
license GNU General Public License
GPL
maintainer GNU Project
operatingSystem GNU
Linux
Unix-like systems
partOf GNU Project
programmingLanguage C
repository https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/grep.git
supports Perl-compatible regular expressions
basic regular expressions
extended regular expressions
multiple input files
standard input
useCase fast text searching in files
log file analysis
pattern matching in text streams
source code searching
uses regular expressions
website https://www.gnu.org/software/grep/

Referenced by (5)
Subject (surface form when different) Predicate
GNU Grep ("grep")
GNU Grep ("fgrep")
commandName
ripgrep ("grep")
comparedTo
GNU Project
hasPart
Paul Eggert
notableWork

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