Installing Grep-2.5.1

Estimated build time:           0.1 SBU
Estimated required disk space:  5 MB

Contents of Grep

(Last checked against version 2.5.)

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

Grep installs the following:

Program Files

egrep (link to grep), fgrep (link to grep) and grep

Grep Installation Dependencies

(Last checked against version 2.4.2.)

Bash: sh
Binutils: as, ld
Coreutils: basename, cat, chmod, echo, expr, hostname, install,
             ls, mkdir, mv, rm, sleep, tr, uname
Diffutils: cmp
Gawk: gawk
GCC: cc, cc1, collect2, cpp0, gcc
Gettext: msgfmt, xgettext
Glibc: getconf
Grep: egrep, fgrep, grep
M4: m4
Make: make
Sed: sed
Texinfo: install-info, makeinfo

Installation of Grep

Prepare Grep for compilation:

./configure --prefix=/usr --bindir=/bin \
    --with-included-regex

Compile the package:

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

And install the package:

make install