What does "grep" mean?

To use a program such as grep to search in a file.

What is a synonym for "grep"?

Common synonyms include: grepping, pattern search tool, probe, scan, search, search utility.

/ɡɹɛp/ name, verb

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Verb

1
To use a program such as grep to search in a file.
"You can't grep dead trees."
2
To search anything (perhaps a paper document by eye). broadly

Proper Noun

"Running netstat and grepping for sshd will give a similar output to this: […]"

From an idiomatic command sequence in the qed and ed text editors: ‘g/re/p’, meaning: globally search for a regular expression and print.