grep

Meaning

Name

A program which selects lines in a file which match a given pattern.

Verb

1. To use a program such as grep to search in a file.
2. To search anything (perhaps a paper document by eye).

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ɡɹɛp/

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.