(Global Regular Expression and Print) A Unix pattern matching utility that searches files for a string of text and outputs any line that contains the pattern. Grep came from ed, the Unix text editor, in which the expression g/re/p means "display all text in the file that matches this." That single function became a utility program itself. See ed.
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