Grep

For installation instructions see the Section called Installing Grep-2.5.1 in Chapter 6.

Official Download Location

Grep (2.5.1): 
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.)

Bash: sh
Binutils: as, ld
Coreutils: basename, cat, chmod, echo, expr, hostname, install,
             ls, mkdir, mv, rm, sleep, tr, uname
Diffutils: cmp
Gawk: gawk
GCC: cc, cc1, collect2, cpp0, gcc
Gettext: msgfmt, xgettext
Glibc: getconf
Grep: egrep, fgrep, grep
M4: m4
Make: make
Sed: sed
Texinfo: install-info, makeinfo