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# 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

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## Descriptions

(Last checked against version 2.5.)

### Program file 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.

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## 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

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