"grep" meaning in Anglais

See grep in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

IPA: \ɡɹɛp\ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-grep.wav Forms: to grep [infinitive], greps [present, third-person, singular], grepped [preterite], grepped [participle, past], grepping [participle, present]
  1. Rechercher dans un ensemble de fichiers toutes les occurrences d’une expression rationnelle.
    Sense id: fr-grep-en-verb-WhqqbUSw Categories (other): Lexique en anglais des expressions rationnelles
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: grepper

Inflected forms

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