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Everything about Grep
Command-line utility for text search
grep is a command-line utility for searching text for lines that match a regular expression. Its name comes from the ed command g/re/p, which has the same effect. grep was originally developed for the Unix operating system, and is commonly available on Unix-like and some other systems such as OS-9. The shell command that runs the utility has the same name: grep. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: GrepA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: GrEp: Graph-based epithelial cell classification refinement in histopathology H&E imagesInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: grepThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: GREP: genome for REPositioning drugsCited 78 times
- Go sideways: Ed (text editor)A closely related topic
- Go sideways: Find (Unix)A closely related topic
📖 Definitions
Proper noun A program which selects lines in a file which match a given pattern.
Verb To use a program such as grep to search in a file.
Verb To search anything (perhaps a paper document by eye).
🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
GREP: genome for REPositioning drugs
NR‐grep: a fast and flexible pattern‐matching tool
The added value of the multi-system spread information for ocean heat content and steric sea level investigations in the CMEMS GREP ensemble reanalysis product
The “Grep” Command But Not FusionMap, FusionFinder or ChimeraScan Captures the CIC-DUX4 Fusion Gene from Whole Transcriptome Sequencing Data on a Small Round Cell Tumor with t(4;19)(q35;q13)
The Antarctic Marginal Ice Zone and Pack Ice Area in CMEMS GREP Ensemble Reanalysis Product
Grep: A Graph Learning Based Database Partitioning System
Three-dimensional gradient-enhanced relay-edited proton spectroscopy, GREP-HMQC-COSY
Postura del GREP-AEDN: la obesidad como enfermedad
🆕 Influential since 2022
📚 Books worth reading
grepJohn Bambenek, Agnieszka Klus · 2009
Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.
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