 Example of grep command | |
| Original author(s) | Ken Thompson[1][2] |
|---|---|
| Developer(s) | AT&T Bell Laboratories |
| Initial release | November 1973[1] |
| Written in | C |
| Operating system | Unix, Unix-like, Plan 9, Inferno, OS-9, MSX-DOS, IBM i |
| Platform | Cross-platform |
| Type | Command |
grep is a command-line utility for searching plaintext datasets for lines that match a regular expression. Its name comes from the ed command g/re/p (global regular expression search and print), which has the same effect.[3][4] grep was originally developed for the Unix operating system, but later became available for all Unix-like systems and some others such as OS-9.[5]
- ^ a b Kernighan, Brian (1984). The Unix Programming Environment. Prentice Hall. pp. 102. ISBN 0-13-937681-X.
- ^ “grep was a private command of mine for quite a while before i made it public.” -Ken Thompson Archived 2015-05-26 at the Wayback Machine, By Benjamin Rualthanzauva, Published on Feb 5, 2014, Medium
- ^ Hauben et al. 1997, Ch. 9
- ^ Raymond, Eric. "grep". Jargon File. Archived from the original on 2006-06-17. Retrieved 2006-06-29.
- ^ Paul S. Dayan (1992). The OS-9 Guru - 1 : The Facts. Galactic Industrial Limited. ISBN 0-9519228-0-7.