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xargs (short for "extended arguments") [1] is a command on Unix and most Unix-like operating systems used to build and execute commands from standard input. It converts input from standard input into arguments to a command. Some commands such as grep and awk can take input either as
agrep (approximate grep) is an open-source approximate string matching program, developed by Udi Manber and Sun Wu between 1988 and 1991, [1] for use with the Unix operating system. It was later ported to OS/2, DOS, and Windows.
First appearing in Version 7 Unix, [3] sed is one of the early Unix commands built for command line processing of data files. It evolved as the natural successor to the popular grep command. [4] The original motivation was an analogue of grep (g/re/p) for substitution, hence "g/re/s". [3]
NOTE: An application using a library for regular expression support does not necessarily support the full set of features of the library, e.g., GNU grep uses PCRE, but supports no lookahead, though PCRE does.
pgrep is a command-line utility initially written for use with the Solaris 7 operating system by Mike Shapiro.It has since been available in illumos and reimplemented for the Linux and BSDs (DragonFly BSD, FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD).
XMLStarlet is a set of command line utilities (toolkit) to query, transform, validate, and edit XML documents and files using a simple set of shell commands in a way similar to how it is done with UNIX grep, sed, awk, diff, patch, join, etc commands.
He later added this capability to the Unix editor ed, which eventually led to the popular search tool grep's use of regular expressions ("grep" is a word derived from the command for regular expression searching in the ed editor: g/re/p meaning "Global search for Regular Expression and Print matching lines"). [15]
grep is a command-line utility for searching plain-text data sets for lines matching a regular expression and by default reporting matching lines on standard output. tree is a command-line utility that recursively lists files found in a directory tree, indenting the filenames according to their position in the file hierarchy.