How To Install grin on Fedora 34

grin is Grep-like tool for source code

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install grin on Fedora 34.

What is grin

grin is a similar in function to GNU grep, however it is has modified behaviour to make it simpler to use when grepping source code. Some features grin feature are * recurse directories by default * do not go into directories with specified names * do not search files with specified extensions * be able to show context lines before and after matched lines * Python regex syntax * unless suppressed via a command line option, display the filename regardless of the number of files * accept a file (or stdin) with a list of newline-separated filenames * grep through gzipped text files * be useful as a library to build custom tools quickly

We can use yum or dnf to install grin on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install grin.

Install grin on Fedora 34 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install grin using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install grin

Install grin on Fedora 34 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install grin using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install grin

How To Uninstall grin on Fedora 34

To uninstall only the grin package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove grin

grin Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/grin
/usr/bin/grind
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/__pycache__/grin.cpython-39.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/__pycache__/grin.cpython-39.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/grin-1.3.0-py3.9.egg-info
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/grin-1.3.0-py3.9.egg-info/PKG-INFO
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/grin-1.3.0-py3.9.egg-info/SOURCES.txt
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/grin-1.3.0-py3.9.egg-info/dependency_links.txt
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/grin-1.3.0-py3.9.egg-info/entry_points.txt
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/grin-1.3.0-py3.9.egg-info/top_level.txt
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/grin.py
/usr/share/doc/grin
/usr/share/doc/grin/README.rst

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install grin on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.