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Grep is a command line utility originally created for the [[Unix]] operating system. It searches files for a word or pattern of characters.
'''Grep''' is a command line utility originally created for the [[Unix]] operating system. It searches files for a word or pattern of characters.
Its input is a list of files (or current directory by default) and a text string or set of [[regular expressions]]. Its output consists of lines of text in the given files that match the string or [[regular expressions]]. The name "grep" stands for "Global Regular Expression Parser."
Its input is a list of files (or current directory by default) and a text string or set of [[regular expressions]]. Its output consists of lines of text in the given files that match the string or [[regular expressions]]. The name "grep" stands for "Global Regular Expression Parser."