Date: Mon, 07 Jul 2014 12:19:52 +0200 From: Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf@rocketmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: The name "grep" Message-ID: <1404728392.19389.1.camel@archlinux> In-Reply-To: <53BA71A7.9040208@qeng-ho.org> References: <20140707075443.d47ca06a.freebsd@edvax.de> <53BA4F77.60907@qeng-ho.org> <20140707104403.5a0694ff.freebsd@edvax.de> <53BA71A7.9040208@qeng-ho.org>
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On Mon, 2014-07-07 at 11:08 +0100, Arthur Chance wrote: > It's of historical interest, but 30+ years down the line It still matters as a mnemonic. Everybody understands that "mv" is for "move". But "grep"? Most of all I like "dd", reminds me of 2001's HAL, abcd ... hijklm ... yvz, it's negated by the filmmakers, but anyway ... ^^ ^^ ^^ ... obviously IBM.
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