grepping

From an idiomatic command sequence in the qed and ed text editors: ‘g/re/p’, meaning: globally search for a regular expression and print, The manual action 'grepping' is often used to denote searching for and returning information to another person.

After manually grepping the code, I can can conclude that you broke it on line 42

by okushama October 12, 2015

grepping

To deficate on ones own chest

"man last night I had a good grepping session"

by Luke1000000 February 12, 2008

grep

"To search" - Derives from the standard Unix search utility of the same name.

Please grep the movie listings to see what time the movie starts.

by Bri March 9, 2004

grepped

The past tense form of "grep". To search using the unix-like command line tool with the same name.

Bob: I've grepped through the access logs, but I can't find anyone unauthorized to access the server!
Alice: Are you sure? I've received reports of the server security being subpar

by Dorumin April 5, 2021

grep

Grep is a UNIX/LINUX utility that searches the named input FILE/s for lines containing a match to the
given PATTERN.

dmesg | grep -i 'usb'

here the dmesg command is piped through grep to extract any patterned data matching 'usb'. The -i switch is used to tell grep to ignore the case of the letters 'usb'.

by inspire_d March 3, 2004

grep

To find a pattern in a given input.

grep "pattern" FILE

Or:

"I grep'd your product's manual, but found nothing about 'what to do if product is on fire'."

by Josh January 17, 2003

Grep

A small amount of deformation. typically a failed Photoshop of an individual that bulges the face.

Look at this Grep of blank it's really funny looking

by GrepMaker August 14, 2017