Grep

Official Download Location

Grep (2.5): 
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/grep/

Contents of Grep

Last checked against version 2.5.

Grep is a program used to print lines from a file matching a specified pattern.

Grep installs the following:

Program Files

egrep (link to grep), fgrep (link to grep) and grep

 

Descriptions

Last checked against version 2.5.

Program file descriptions

egrep

egrep prints lines from files matching an extended regular expression pattern.

fgrep

fgrep prints lines from files matching a list of fixed strings, separated by newlines, any of which is to be matched.

grep

grep prints lines from files matching a basic regular expression pattern.

 

Grep Installation Dependencies

Last checked against version 2.4.2.

Autoconf: autoconf, autoheader
Automake: aclocal, automake
Bash: sh
Binutils: as, ld
Diffutils: cmp
Fileutils: chmod, install, ls, mkdir, mv, rm
Gettext: msgfmt, xgettext
Gcc: cc, cc1, collect2, cpp0, gcc
Glibc: getconf
Grep: egrep, fgrep, grep
M4: m4
Make: make
Gawk: gawk
Sed: sed
Sh-utils: basename, echo, expr, hostname, sleep, uname
Texinfo: install-info, makeinfo
Textutils: cat, tr