# grep
## English
### 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.

### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /ɡɹɛp/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɛp

### Proper noun

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

### Verb

grep (third-person singular simple present greps, present participle grepping, simple past and past participle grepped)
* (computing) To use a program such as grep to search in a file.
    You can't grep dead trees.
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* (by extension) To search anything (perhaps a paper document by eye).

#### Derived terms

* greppable

#### Translations
### Further reading

* Eric S[teven] Raymond, editor (2003 December 29), “grep”, in The Jargon File, version 4.4.7.

### Anagrams

* preg

## Albanian
### Alternative forms

* grap, gërepë, gërjepë

### Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *grep- (“hook”), from *gremb- (“crooked, uneven”), ultimately from *ger- (“to turn, bend, twist”) (cf. English grapple, Old French grape, grappe, crape (“hook”), Norwegian grep (“grasp”)). Alternatively a contraction of variant gërepë, from archaic and dialectal gërjepë, from Proto-Albanian *ga-repa, from *repa (“to peel, tear off”) (modern rrjep). More at rrjep.

### Noun

grep m
* hook, fishhook

#### Derived terms

* grremç, gërrefshë, gërraç

#### Related terms

* gërreç
* zgrip

### References

* ↑ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “grep”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 123

### Further reading

* “grep”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006
* “grep”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎ (in Albanian), 1980
* Newmark, L. (1999) “grep”, in Oxford Albanian-English Dictionary‎

## Czech
### Noun

grep n
* (informal) grapefruit

#### Declension
## Japanese
### Etymology

Borrowed from English grep.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ɡɯ̟ɾe̞p̚pɯ̟]

### Noun

grep(グレップ) • (gureppu)
* This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

### Verb

grep(グレップ)する • (gureppu suru) suru (stem grep(グレップ)し (gureppu shi), past grep(グレップ)した (gureppu shita))
* to grep

#### Conjugation

Katsuyōkei ("stem forms") :
| Mizenkei ("imperfective") | grepし | グレップし | gureppu shi |
| Ren’yōkei ("continuative") | grepし | グレップし | gureppu shi |
| Shūshikei ("terminal") | grepする | グレップする | gureppu suru |
| Rentaikei ("attributive") | grepする | グレップする | gureppu suru |
| Kateikei ("hypothetical") | grepすれ | グレップすれ | gureppu sure |
| Meireikei ("imperative") | grepせよ¹ grepしろ² | グレップせよ¹ グレップしろ² | gureppu seyo¹ gureppu shiro² |
| Key constructions ||||
| Passive | grepされる | グレップされる | gureppu sareru |
| Causative | grepさせる grepさす | グレップさせる グレップさす | gureppu saseru gureppu sasu |
| Potential | grepできる | グレップできる | gureppu dekiru |
| Volitional | grepしよう | グレップしよう | gureppu shiyō |
| Negative | grepしない | グレップしない | gureppu shinai |
| Negative continuative | grepせず | グレップせず | gureppu sezu |
| Formal | grepします | グレップします | gureppu shimasu |
| Perfective | grepした | グレップした | gureppu shita |
| Conjunctive | grepして | グレップして | gureppu shite |
| Hypothetical conditional | grepすれば | グレップすれば | gureppu sureba |
| ¹ Written imperative ² Spoken imperative ||||

## Marshallese
### Etymology

From English grape.

### Pronunciation

* (phonetic) IPA: [ŋʌpʲ]
* (phonemic) IPA: /ŋɛpʲ/
* Bender phonemes: {gep}

### Noun

grep
* grape; raisin
* vine
* vineyard

#### Related terms

* kūreep

### References

* "grep" in The Dictionary at Marshallese.org

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Etymology 1

From the verb gripe.

#### Noun

grep n (definite singular grepet, indefinite plural grep, definite plural grepa or grepene)
* a grasp, grip.

### Etymology 2
#### Alternative forms

* greip

#### Verb

grep
* simple past of gripe.

### References

* “grep” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Etymology

From the verb gripe.

### Noun

grep n (definite singular grepet, indefinite plural grep, definite plural grepa)
* a grasp, grip.

### References

* “grep” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

## Old English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɡreːp/

### Noun

grēp f
* furrow, burrow

## Romanian
### Etymology

Clipping of grepfrut.

### Noun

grep n (plural grepuri)
* grapefruit

#### Declension
## Swedish
### Etymology

From Old Norse greip, from Proto-Germanic *graipō.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɡreːp/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

grep c
* garden fork, graip – a tool, resembling a pitchfork but where both handle and prongs are shorter and sturdier, and which is used more for digging than lifting

#### Declension
### Verb

grep
* past indicative of gripa