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Maxi 11x 💉<p>History of the <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/grep" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>grep</span></a> command on Unix – LaurieWired</p><p>Comment: »As a non-native speaker who's been using Linux from around the same time I learned English as a teenager, the realization just hit me hard that "grep" isn't actually a word in the English dictionary, haha.«</p><p><a href="https://youtu.be/iQZ81MbjKpU" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">youtu.be/iQZ81MbjKpU</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
Bozhidar Batsov (a.k.a. Bug)<p>Playing with <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/vim" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>vim</span></a> after so many years reminded that <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/grep" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>grep</span></a> originated from :g/re/p. </p><p>The history of programming never ceases to fascinate and amaze me.</p>
Rainer "friendica" Sokoll<a href="https://friendica.sokoll.com/search?tag=alleskaputt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>alleskaputt</span></a>, heute: <a href="https://friendica.sokoll.com/search?tag=grep" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>grep</span></a> auf <a href="https://friendica.sokoll.com/search?tag=debian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>debian</span></a> <a href="https://friendica.sokoll.com/search?tag=linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>linux</span></a><br> <pre><code># grep '95.223.2' fail2ban.log grep: fail2ban.log: binary file matches # grep alleskaputt fail2ban.log # file fail2ban.log fail2ban.log: CSV text</code></pre>
isabellebou<p>[FR]<br>Arrivée ici début 2025, big up aux <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://piaille.fr/@admin" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>admin</span></a></span> de Piaille.fr ! <a href="https://piaille.fr/tags/introduction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>introduction</span></a> : <br>Tombée dans la marmite <a href="https://piaille.fr/tags/OpenSource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenSource</span></a> en 2000, je me nourris de commandes <a href="https://piaille.fr/tags/bash" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bash</span></a>. Fichiers texte, <a href="https://piaille.fr/tags/grep" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>grep</span></a> et ses jolies <a href="https://piaille.fr/tags/regex" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>regex</span></a>, <a href="https://piaille.fr/tags/ansible" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ansible</span></a>, <a href="https://piaille.fr/tags/git" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>git</span></a>, <a href="https://piaille.fr/tags/greasemonkey" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>greasemonkey</span></a>, les tests auto et la supervision sont tes amis.<br>Cordes frottées, grattées et frappées, sons soufflés, chantés ou beatboxés, sons électro ou scratchés me touchent. Rien de tel qu'une bonne soirée à jammer / à enregistrer pour un beatmaker / à débarquer sur scène pour accompagner quand il manque un instrumentiste / à repiquer des morceaux entiers sur papier à l'ancienne / à improviser avec les enfants<br>Engagée <a href="https://piaille.fr/tags/AMAP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AMAP</span></a> et pro <a href="https://piaille.fr/tags/CNV" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CNV</span></a></p>
Hippo 🍉<p>Using <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.sachachua.com/@sacha" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>sacha</span></a></span>'s "find and replace across all grep results" post as a reference to replace ad-hoc hardcoded values with structured enums in a messy <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Laravel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Laravel</span></a> project :laravel:</p><p>'wgrep' rocks! :emacs: ✨</p><p><a href="https://sachachua.com/blog/2021/08/using-the-wgrep-package-in-emacs-to-rewrite-grep-results-from-lots-of-files/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">sachachua.com/blog/2021/08/usi</span><span class="invisible">ng-the-wgrep-package-in-emacs-to-rewrite-grep-results-from-lots-of-files/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Emacs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Emacs</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/grep" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>grep</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/wgrep" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>wgrep</span></a></p>
Ponder Stibbons 🇧🇷🇩🇪<p><a href="https://social.saarland/tags/TIL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TIL</span></a> about the <a href="https://social.saarland/tags/column" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>column</span></a> command and I cant believe that I missed this gem since... forever?</p><p>My previews ways of doing such things where <a href="https://social.saarland/tags/AWK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AWK</span></a> (-ward) scribbles that I gathered over time... I think I can ditch lots of them now </p><p>Thank you so much <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://linuxmom.net/@vkc" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>vkc</span></a></span> for making me smarter &lt;3</p><p><a href="https://social.saarland/tags/linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>linux</span></a> <a href="https://social.saarland/tags/cli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cli</span></a> <a href="https://social.saarland/tags/data" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>data</span></a> <a href="https://social.saarland/tags/find" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>find</span></a> <a href="https://social.saarland/tags/grep" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>grep</span></a> <a href="https://social.saarland/tags/CSV" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CSV</span></a> <a href="https://social.saarland/tags/XSV" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>XSV</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uL7KvRskeog" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=uL7KvRskeo</span><span class="invisible">g</span></a></p>
Pedro Fonseca<p>Today got to taste some of my own poison. 😏</p><p>I'm taking the RHEL system admin course, and the teacher gave a lecture of almost 3h about VI, GREP and EGREP.</p><p>I almost fell asleep, now I know what people feel when I talk IT. </p><p>IT'S BORING!</p><p><a href="https://masto.pt/tags/Linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Linux</span></a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/RHEL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RHEL</span></a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/grep" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>grep</span></a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/vi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>vi</span></a></p>
Gonzalo Nemmi :runbsd:<p><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/Phraxos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Phraxos</span></a></p><p>A POSIX compliant site generator by <span class="h-card"><a href="https://merveilles.town/@caffeine" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>caffeine</span></a></span> </p><p>Dependencies:</p><p>A <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/POSIX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>POSIX</span></a> compliant <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/shell" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>shell</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/grep" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>grep</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/awk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>awk</span></a> and head</p><p>There's so much beauty in this that I'm truly impressed.</p><p><a href="https://phraxos.caffeine.computer/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">phraxos.caffeine.computer/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
DACBARBOS Brand<p>Old habits die hard. There can be only one <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/grep" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>grep</span></a> <a href="https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/383448/why-is-direct-invocation-as-either-egrep-or-fgrep-deprecated" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">unix.stackexchange.com/questio</span><span class="invisible">ns/383448/why-is-direct-invocation-as-either-egrep-or-fgrep-deprecated</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/sysadmin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sysadmin</span></a></p>
hugovangalen 🤖 🕹️ 😼<p>Is there a <a href="https://mastodon.nl/tags/grep" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>grep</span></a>-like command line utility for <a href="https://mastodon.nl/tags/Linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Linux</span></a> that allows you to press a certain key(combo) and alter the match pattern? (This could also be a <a href="https://mastodon.nl/tags/tail" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tail</span></a>-like tool.)</p><p>Obviously only useful on reading stdin. The specific use case is doing a:</p><p>~$ sudo tail -f /var/log/syslog | grep-like-tool "something"</p><p>As you are debugging things you want to see matches for another pattern, or even all matches and at the press of a few keys could do that. 🤔</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.nl/tags/cli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cli</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nl/tags/utilities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>utilities</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nl/tags/unix" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>unix</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nl/tags/terminal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>terminal</span></a></p>
Paolo Amoroso<p>This is not your Unix gray beard's grep, but does the same thing on Medley. The first argument of this GREP Interlisp function is a string pattern, the second the files to search which can be a pattern like here.</p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/grep" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>grep</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/interlisp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>interlisp</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/lisp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>lisp</span></a></p>