# grep

Skill · Software Development and Engineering Practices

Canonical page: https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/grep

grep is a command-line utility for searching plain-text files for lines matching a specified pattern or regular expression. Widely used by software developers, system administrators, and data analysts on Unix/Linux systems, it's a fundamental tool for searching logs, source code, and text data quickly from the terminal.

Related skills: [AWK](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/awk), [Regular Expressions](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/regular-expressions), [Unix Commands](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/unix-commands)

## Open roles requiring grep (0)

None of the roles we have read name this skill yet. A large share of the visible corpus has not been parsed for skills, so this is at least as likely to be our backlog as the market's verdict.