%%name: grep

%%short-description: Finds lines that match entered patterns.
 
%%full-description: Package includes the GNU 'grep,' 'egrep,' and 'fgrep,'
which find lines that match entered patterns. By default, grep prints
the matching lines.

GNU grep is based on a fast lazy-state deterministic matcher (about
twice as fast as the standard Unix grep) hybridized with a
Boyer-Moore-Gosper search for a fixed string that eliminates
impossible text from being considered by the full regexp match without
having to look at every chanracter; the result is usually many times
faster that UNIX 'grep' or 'egrep.'

%%category: editing, word-processing, development

%%license: GPL

%%maintainer: Alain Magloire  <alain@gnu.org>

%%interface: command line

%%updated: 26 Apr 2000

%%keywords: grep, egrep, fgrep, editing, patterns

%%programs: grep, egrep, fgrep

%%GNU: yes

%%web-page: http://www.gnu.org/software/grep/grep.html

%%support:

%%doc: User guide included

%%developers: Mike Haertel, Alain Magliore <alain@gnu.org>

%%contributors: 

%%sponsors:

%%source: http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/grep/

%%debian: http://www.debian.org/Packages/stable/base/grep.html

%%redhat: http://rpmfind.net/RPM/grep.html

%%repository:

%%related: diff, wdiff, diffutils, findutils

%%source-language: C

%%supported-languages:

%%use-requirements: 

%%build-prerequisites:

%%weak-prerequisites:

%%source-prerequisites:

%%version: 2.4.2 stable released 06 Mar 2000

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%%bug-list: bug-gnu-utils@gnu.org










 





