grep

About 0.12 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. proper noun A program which selects lines in a file which match a given pattern.
2. verb To use a program such as grep to search in a file.

   You can't grep dead trees.

3. verb To search anything (perhaps a paper document by eye).

Similar words

capture pattern matching pattern pager parser filemask submatch screen diff regexp

Often followed by

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