Editing Grok (section)

==== Examples of usage ====

A typical tech usage from the ''Linux Bible'' characterizes the [[Unix]] [[software development]] philosophy as "one that can make your life a lot simpler once you grok the idea".<ref>{{cite book |last1=Negus |first1=Christopher |title=Linux Bible |date=2005 |edition=1st |publisher=[[John Wiley & Sons]] |location=Hoboken, New Jersey |isbn=0764589741}}</ref>

The book ''[[Cyberia (book)|Cyberia]]'' covers its use in this subculture extensively:<ref>{{cite book |last1=Rushkoff |first1=Douglas |author1-link=Douglas Rushkoff |title=Cyberia: Life in the Trenches of Cyberspace |date=1994 |publisher=[[Harper San Francisco]] |location=San Francisco, California |isbn=9780062510105}}</ref>

{{quote|This is all latter day usage, the original derivation was from an early text processing utility from so long ago that no one remembers but, grok was the output when it understood the file. [[Brian Kernighan|K]]&[[Dennis Ritchie|R]] would remember.}}

* The main web page for [[cURL]], an open source tool and programming library, describes the function of cURL as "cURL groks URLs".<ref name=curl/>
* The [[keystroke logging]] software used by the NSA for its remote intelligence gathering operations is named GROK.<ref name=intercept/>
* One of the most powerful parsing filters used in [[Elasticsearch]] software's logstash component is named ''grok''.<ref>{{cite web |title=Grok filter plugin |url=https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/logstash/current/plugins-filters-grok.html |website=[[Elasticsearch]] |access-date=18 October 2024}}</ref>
* A reference book by Carey Bunks on the use of the GNU Image Manipulation Program is titled ''Grokking the GIMP''.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Bunks |first1=Carey |title=Grokking the GIMP |url=http://dev.cs.ovgu.de/tutorials/Grokking-the-GIMP-v1.0/ |website=Carey Bunks |access-date=18 October 2024}}</ref>
* The generative artificial intelligence chatbot developed by [[XAI (company)|xAI]] is named [[Grok (chatbot)|Grok]]''.''<ref>{{Cite web |title=Grok |url=https://x.ai/grok |access-date=2025-01-09 |website=x.ai |language=en}}</ref>