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grep

grep is a command-line utility for searching plain-text data sets for lines matching a regular expression.

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  • Free
  • Open Source

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  • Mac
  • Windows
  • Linux
  • Haiku
  • Linux Mobile
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Properties

  1.  Lightweight

Features

  1.  Full-Text Search
  2.  File Search
  3.  Support for regular expressions

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Our users have written 1 comments and reviews about grep, and it has gotten 38 likes

grep was added to AlternativeTo by vermin96 on and this page was last updated .

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Using it all the time on GNU/Linux

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Install from the command line

  • brew install grep

Be careful what you paste into a terminal. Check what a command installs before running it.

What is grep?

grep is a command-line utility for searching plain-text data sets for lines matching a regular expression.