How to Install and Uninstall ugrep Package on Kali Linux

Last updated: November 05,2024

1. Install "ugrep" package

This is a short guide on how to install ugrep on Kali Linux


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                ugrep
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "ugrep" package

Here is a brief guide to show you how to uninstall ugrep on Kali Linux:


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                ugrep
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the ugrep package on Kali Linux

Package: ugrep
Version: 5.0.0+dfsg-1
Installed-Size: 2659
Maintainer: Ricardo Ribalda Delgado
Architecture: amd64
Depends: libbrotli1 (>= 0.6.0), libbz2-1.0, libc6 (>= 2.34), libgcc-s1 (>= 3.4), liblz4-1 (>= 0.0~r122), liblzma5 (>= 5.1.1alpha+20120614), libpcre2-8-0 (>= 10.32), libstdc++6 (>= 13.1), libzstd1 (>= 1.5.5), zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.4)
Suggests: poppler-utils, antiword, pandoc, libimage-exiftool-perl
Size: 498512
SHA256: 7484f95f66ccd01ff82e61f27d26973f7b95418936341ac1d125d91ee4556662
SHA1: bdf83bdd8edccd90d48c3bfe11f3cac541834eca
MD5sum: bb823167fc592147a66d69b11daf0b44
Description: faster grep with an interactive query UI
Universal grep: ultra fast searcher of file systems, text and
binary files, source code, archives, compressed files, documents, and more.
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The main features include:
- Written in clean and efficient C++11, built for speed
- Ultra fast with new match algorithms beating grep, ripgrep, silver
searcher, hyperscan, etc.
- Multi-threaded search using high-performance lock-free job queue stealing
- Multi-threaded task-parallel decompression and search
- Optimized pattern matching (AVX, SSE2, ARM NEON/AArch64)
- Optimized asynchronous IO for efficient concurrent searching
- Thoroughly tested (includes over 1000 test cases)
- Compatible with the standard GNU/BSD grep command-line options
- Comprehensive how-to tutorial for beginners to advanced users
- Interactive query UI to enter search patterns
- Select files to search by file types, filename suffix, and "magic bytes"
- Search archives (cpio, jar, tar, pax, zip)
- Search compressed files (zip, gz, Z, bz, bz2, lzma, xz)
- Search pdf, doc, docx, xls, xlxs, and more using filters
- Search binary files and display hexdumps with binary pattern matches
- Search UTF-encoded files with Unicode pattern matches (by default)
- Search files encoded in ISO-8859-1 thru 16, CP 437, CP 850, MAC, KOI8, etc.
- Search files excluding files specified by .gitignore etc.
- Search patterns across newlines, matching multiple lines at once
- Search patterns excluding negative patterns ("match this but not that")
- Includes predefined regex patterns to search source code, XML, JSON, HTML
- Output results in CSV, JSON, XML, and user-specified formats
- Sort matching files by name, size, and time
- Portable, compiles and runs on Linux, Unix, Mac OS X, Windows, etc.
Description-md5:
Homepage: https://github.com/Genivia/ugrep/wiki
Section: utils
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/u/ugrep/ugrep_5.0.0+dfsg-1_amd64.deb