5.23. Installing Grep-2.5.1

Estimated build time:           0.1 SBU
Estimated required disk space:  5.8 MB

5.23.1. Contents of Grep

Grep is a program used to print lines from a file matching a specified pattern.

Installed programs: egrep (link to grep), fgrep (link to grep) and grep

5.23.2.

5.23.3. Grep Installation Dependencies

Grep depends on: Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, Diffutils, GCC, Gettext, Glibc, Make, Sed, Texinfo.

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5.23.5. Installation of Grep

Prepare Grep for compilation:

./configure --prefix=/tools \
    --disable-perl-regexp --with-included-regex

The meaning of the configure options:

Compile the programs:

make 

This package has a test suite available which can perform a number of checks to ensure it built correctly. Should you choose to run it, the following command will do so:

make check

Then install them and their documentation:

make install