How To Install grep on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install grep in Fedora 36. grep is Pattern matching utilities

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install grep on Fedora 36.

What is grep

The GNU versions of commonly used grep utilities. Grep searches through textual input for lines which contain a match to a specified pattern and then prints the matching lines. GNU’s grep utilities include grep, egrep and fgrep. GNU grep is needed by many scripts, so it shall be installed on every system.

We can use yum or dnf to install grep on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install grep.

Install grep on Fedora 36 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

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

sudo dnf -y install grep

Install grep on Fedora 36 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

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

sudo yum -y install grep

How To Uninstall grep on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove grep

grep Package Contents on Fedora 36

/etc/GREP_COLORS
/etc/profile.d/colorgrep.csh
/etc/profile.d/colorgrep.sh
/usr/bin/egrep
/usr/bin/fgrep
/usr/bin/grep
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/90
/usr/lib/.build-id/90/e7d8894b94f47ad17722ff8658f833f329b035
/usr/libexec/grepconf.sh
/usr/share/doc/grep
/usr/share/doc/grep/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/grep/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/grep/README
/usr/share/doc/grep/THANKS
/usr/share/doc/grep/TODO
/usr/share/info/grep.info.gz
/usr/share/licenses/grep
/usr/share/licenses/grep/COPYING
/usr/share/locale/af/LC_MESSAGES/grep.mo
/usr/share/locale/be/LC_MESSAGES/grep.mo
/usr/share/locale/bg/LC_MESSAGES/grep.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/grep.mo
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/grep.mo
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/grep.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/grep.mo
/usr/share/locale/el/LC_MESSAGES/grep.mo
/usr/share/locale/eo/LC_MESSAGES/grep.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/grep.mo
/usr/share/locale/et/LC_MESSAGES/grep.mo
/usr/share/locale/eu/LC_MESSAGES/grep.mo
/usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/grep.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/grep.mo
/usr/share/locale/ga/LC_MESSAGES/grep.mo
/usr/share/locale/gl/LC_MESSAGES/grep.mo
/usr/share/locale/he/LC_MESSAGES/grep.mo
/usr/share/locale/hr/LC_MESSAGES/grep.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/grep.mo
/usr/share/locale/id/LC_MESSAGES/grep.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/grep.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/grep.mo
/usr/share/locale/ko/LC_MESSAGES/grep.mo
/usr/share/locale/ky/LC_MESSAGES/grep.mo
/usr/share/locale/lt/LC_MESSAGES/grep.mo
/usr/share/locale/nb/LC_MESSAGES/grep.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/grep.mo
/usr/share/locale/pa/LC_MESSAGES/grep.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/grep.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/grep.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/grep.mo
/usr/share/locale/ro/LC_MESSAGES/grep.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/grep.mo
/usr/share/locale/sk/LC_MESSAGES/grep.mo
/usr/share/locale/sl/LC_MESSAGES/grep.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr/LC_MESSAGES/grep.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/grep.mo
/usr/share/locale/th/LC_MESSAGES/grep.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/grep.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/grep.mo
/usr/share/locale/vi/LC_MESSAGES/grep.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/grep.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/grep.mo
/usr/share/man/man1/egrep.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/fgrep.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/grep.1.gz

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install grep on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).