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• grep /grep/ vi. [from the qed/ed editor idiom g/re/p
  where re stands for a regular expression, to Globally search for the Regular Expression and Print the lines containing matches to it, via Unix grep(1)] To rapidly scan a file or set of files looking for a particular string or pattern (when browsing through a large set of files, one may speak of `grepping around')....
• What does "grep" mean? The letters grep indicate "Globally search for a Regular Expression and Print.
  In standard Unix system editors, the notation is g/re/p where re is a regular expression....
• eyeball search: n.,v. To look for something in a mass of code or data with one's own native optical senso
  as opposed to using some sort of pattern matching software like {grep} or any other automated search tool....
• blurgle: /bler'gl/ [Great Britain] n. Spoken {metasyntactic variable}, to indicate some text that is obvious from context, or which is already known.
  If several words are to be replaced, blurgle may well be doubled or trebled....
• vgrep: /vee'grep/ v.,n. Visual grep. The operation of finding patterns in a file optically rather than digitally (also called an `optical grep').
  See {grep}; compare {vdiff}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• eyeball search n.,v. To look for something in a mass of code or data with one's own native optical senso
  as opposed to using some sort of pattern matching software like grep or any other automated search tool....
• blurgle /bler'gl/ n. [UK] Spoken metasyntactic variable, to indicate some text that is obvious from c which is already known.
  If several words are to be replaced, blurgle may well be doubled or tripled....
• egexp: /reg'eksp/ [UNIX] n. (alt. `regex' or `reg-ex') 1.
  Common written and spoken abbreviation for `regular expression', one of the wildcard patterns used, e....
• optical grep n. See vgrep.