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• grep: /grep/ [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)'] vt....
• 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....
• 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....
• 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....
• egexp /reg'eksp/ n. [Unix] (alt. `regex' or `reg-ex') 1.
  Common written and spoken abbreviation for `regular expression', one of the wildcard patterns used, e....
• backreference n. 1. In a regular expression or pattern match, the text which was matched within grouping parentheses parentheses.
  2. The part of the pattern which refers back to the matched text....