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Geep vs Grep - What's the difference?

geep | grep |

As a noun geep

is a sheep-goat hybrid, an animal with dna from a goat and from a sheep (whether artificially produced or the result of animals from these species naturally intermating).

As a proper noun grep is

a program which selects lines in a file which match a given pattern.

As a verb grep is

to use a program such as grep to search in a file.

geep

English

Noun

(en noun) (wikipedia geep)
  • A sheep-goat hybrid, an animal with DNA from a goat and from a sheep (whether artificially produced or the result of animals from these species naturally intermating).
  • grep

    English

    (wikipedia grep)

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • A program which selects lines in a file which match a given pattern.
  • Verb

    (grepp)
  • To use a program such as grep to search in a file.
  • By extension, to search anything (perhaps a paper document by eye).
  • Derived terms

    * greppable

    Phrases

    * you can't grep dead trees: one can more easily search through digital media, using tools such as grep, than one can search through paper books (i.e., those made from dead trees)

    Anagrams

    * preg