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what is grep?


A text search utility in Unix. Name comes from a command in the text editor ed and stands for "global regular expression print".


Thank-you, guys, but I was kidding. I've been using Linux and other Unixes since 1998. I just got impressed in how this post became busy with everything, but Linux programming.





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