#fgrep
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #fgrep from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
Own #fgrep
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Day-by-day usage
measured · mastodon.social (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-10-23 14:19 UTC0 uses by 0 unique accounts across the window. Real per-day counts, not estimates. Newest bar is today so far.
Related hashtags
measured · mastodon.social (Mastodon public search API) · fetched 2026-10-23 14:19 UTCNo related tags with measured usage found for #fgrep.
Live pulse
measured · mastodon.social (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-10-23 14:19 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 5 public posts (spanning ~36529 hours).
Posting hours (UTC)
Languages: English (4) · Portuguese (1)
Avg boosts / post: 0.4
Top of the latest posts
@cks This is a perennial stupidity in the C and C++ worlds. Because the C and C++ standards leave some things up to _other_ standards, including (ironically) #POSIX, the idea that one shouldn't talk about them in the comp.std.c and comp.std
@penguin42 @cks That's the thing. The GNU egrep and fgrep _already are_ shell scripts. Paul Eggert added this change _to those shell scripts_. https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?msg=17;att=1;bug=49996;filename=0001-egrep-fgrep-now-ob
@cks You're a bit late. Debian had a bug about this, and patched the warnings out, back in 2022. https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1019335 The Debian bug log also points to the two GNU project bug reports, where Paul Eggert
What “fgrep” means
Wikipediagrep is a command-line utility for searching text for lines that match a regular expression. Its name comes from the ed command g/re/p, which has the same effect. grep was originally developed for the Unix operating system, and is commonly available on Unix-like and some other systems such as OS-9. The shell command that runs the utility has the same name: grep.
“Grep” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →#fgrep across platforms
every network with a public tag surfaceFollow #fgrep straight to each platform’s own tag page. Where a platform publishes open data we measure it above; the rest lock their numbers behind paid APIs, so we link rather than guess.
Every number above is measured from a named public API at the shown fetch time. Nothing is estimated or extrapolated. Platforms that lock their data behind paid APIs are not shown. Agents: the same numbers, as JSON, at /api/hashtags/fgrep