What would I ever do without grep?

You would use sed.

You’d get sed often :(

You would navigate through all lines.

@linuxxx Great pun!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

True that...

You know... build something like grep?

@FinlayDaG33k, Do I look like Ken Thompson to you?

@PrivateGER, sed is super useful, however, unlike grep, it doesn't support PCRE (as a Perl programmer this is a very important feature to me) and only supports Basic & Extended POSIX RegEx. Whereas grep supports both of the aforementioned RegEx standards, as well as PCRE with the -P flag.

@DewWisp You're a dev ain't ya? :)