Installing Grep-2.5

Estimated build time:           1 minute
Estimated required disk space:  3 MB

Installation of Grep

Install Grep by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr --bindir=/bin &&
make &&
rm /bin/egrep /bin/fgrep &&
make install

Contents of grep-2.4.2

Program Files

egrep, fgrep and grep

Descriptions

egrep

egrep prints lines from files matching an extended regular expression pattern.

fgrep

fgrep prints lines from files matching a list of fixed strings, separated by newlines, any of which is to be matched.

grep

grep prints lines from files matching a basic regular expression pattern.

Dependencies

Grep-2.4.2 needs the following to be installed:


autoconf: autoconf, autoheader
automake: aclocal, automake
bash: sh
binutils: as, ld
diffutils: cmp
fileutils: chmod, install, ls, mkdir, mv, rm
gettext: msgfmt, xgettext
gcc: cc, cc1, collect2, cpp0, gcc
glibc: getconf
grep: egrep, fgrep, grep
m4: m4
make: make
gawk: gawk
sed: sed
sh-utils: basename, echo, expr, hostname, sleep, uname
texinfo: install-info, makeinfo
textutils: cat, tr