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grepping

grepping is the present participle and gerund of grep.

Meaning of grep

Verb

grep (third-person singular simple present greps, present participle grepping, simple past and past participle grepped)

  1. To use a program such as grep to search in a file.
    • You can't grep dead trees.
  2. (broadly) To search anything (perhaps a paper document by eye).

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Questions about grepping

What is grepping the present participle and gerund of?
Grepping is the present participle and gerund of grep.

Words near grepping in the dictionary

  1. Grenzes
  2. grep
  3. grepafloxacin
  4. greppable
  5. grepped
  6. grepping
  7. greps
  8. gres
  9. Gresford
  10. Gresh
  11. Gresham

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Adapted from Wiktionary: grepping (page history and authors); grep (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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