A.21. Grep

For installation instructions see Section 6.44.

A.21.1. Official Download Location

Grep (2.5.1): 
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/grep/

A.21.2. Contents of Grep

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

Installed programs: egrep (link to grep), fgrep (link to grep) and grep

A.21.3.

A.21.4. Short descriptions

egrep prints lines matching an extended regular expression.

fgrep prints lines matching a list of fixed strings.

grep prints lines matching a basic regular expression.

A.21.5.

A.21.6. Grep Installation Dependencies

Grep depends on: Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, Diffutils, GCC, Gettext, Glibc, Make, Sed, Texinfo.