How To Install grin on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install grin in Fedora 36. grin is Grep-like tool for source code

Introduction

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

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 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install grin.

Install grin 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 grin using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install grin

Install grin 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 grin using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install grin

How To Uninstall grin on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove grin

grin Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/grin
/usr/bin/grind
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/__pycache__/grin.cpython-310.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/__pycache__/grin.cpython-310.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/grin-1.3.0-py3.10.egg-info
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/grin-1.3.0-py3.10.egg-info/PKG-INFO
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/grin-1.3.0-py3.10.egg-info/SOURCES.txt
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/grin-1.3.0-py3.10.egg-info/dependency_links.txt
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/grin-1.3.0-py3.10.egg-info/entry_points.txt
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/grin-1.3.0-py3.10.egg-info/top_level.txt
/usr/lib/python3.10/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 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).