How To Install agrep on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install agrep
on CentOS 7.
What is agrep
The agrep tool is similar to the commonly used grep utility, but agrep can be used to search for approximate matches. The agrep tool searches text input for lines (or records separated by strings matching arbitrary regexps) that contain an approximate, or fuzzy, match to a specified regexp, and prints the matching lines. Limits can be set on how many errors of each kind are allowed, or only the best matching lines can be output. Unlike other agrep implementations, TRE agrep allows full POSIX regexps of any length, any number of errors, and non-uniform costs.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install agrep
on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install agrep.
Install agrep on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install agrep
using yum
by running the following command:
Install agrep on CentOS 7 Using dnf
If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first.
Update yum database with dnf
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install agrep
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall agrep on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the agrep
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install agrep
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.