From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 7 10:21:40 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C641C530 for ; Mon, 7 Jul 2014 10:21:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from nm26.bullet.mail.ir2.yahoo.com (nm26.bullet.mail.ir2.yahoo.com [212.82.96.50]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 195D0246D for ; Mon, 7 Jul 2014 10:21:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [212.82.98.61] by nm26.bullet.mail.ir2.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 07 Jul 2014 10:19:53 -0000 Received: from [46.228.39.66] by tm14.bullet.mail.ir2.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 07 Jul 2014 10:19:53 -0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] by smtp103.mail.ir2.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 07 Jul 2014 10:19:53 -0000 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=rocketmail.com; s=s1024; t=1404728393; bh=8qU7SxpHdid2J2sv7s+OomyEy1SaGaw0HXGJFvG6KEY=; h=X-Yahoo-Newman-Id:X-Yahoo-Newman-Property:X-YMail-OSG:X-Yahoo-SMTP:X-Rocket-Received:Message-ID:Subject:From:To:Date:In-Reply-To:References:Content-Type:X-Mailer:Mime-Version:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=vxRsh+K+VSHsxNThYq99s/kBxG+81KE4ApuWZ0C9j/ZsF6Td+2kfuIqM9JzZib2plnAEGnDZum0wqartQhMUu1cQUIdjjbwm4cKdaK1uoMEnq24/ygY9lH0fYDzlqaWS+JO4qohswTG75sOf3rvFWBacMUX2sEUctNG+3fboWXI= X-Yahoo-Newman-Id: 385960.59030.bm@smtp103.mail.ir2.yahoo.com X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 X-YMail-OSG: kxHAEuUVM1n57pEbuWQunYTRSLE26WcvX5xXBQX3Q_PpADL TOcfgN9gwHI7A6SKJXbgMBrGydqP4PUwdLgKcgJuwCKhgbeWWIPHA1fP4B8X i7tNeoweRQkg9IH8hT.25O0p5cEqaI4nm45TIRbqrI1f24BMvxRc5zp83Ae. RqhMLvCYznm9GETNydMLC33dFHGt26KkbaFoMExd4TFS_ytW_5N_RzLdCokH 87ut1jZmD63R.c9n2P5IDiT1sEOol6doR6qv5LJLtt6g4LQIErRGAtGEN4gZ P4xzQodgaHd57wJOOBiM6OBztRPTlbhcjJrN5MarrcSbT4BMwFDceWtkQ9vJ OQN37LFsg8gaQP0ff0KljKC8inF_R0RfmOi9Cc_CDcjJ.hK00NDah70hsU4i _XdPnzpiPlLeC4emDhA7ig_LoGndo7sVnf5OgJH8BGVM1CCr6E7XrwMTVvAh JCPhA0MtISYjmwAj5ptLIMU6M7WOmDJB6u.nC4wBa2ZHr2YweDkdF552W_gE SEj7Wr.FGaXdKJwAM_UHfNzJmfja7vAwh X-Yahoo-SMTP: BeMCPs2swBABTJ3kAeEiC_hE0mz8jRexLddJfD8pI2j32fOacjBmXg-- X-Rocket-Received: from g224210161.adsl.alicedsl.de (ralf.mardorf@92.224.210.161 with plain [188.125.69.59]) by smtp103.mail.ir2.yahoo.com with SMTP; 07 Jul 2014 10:19:53 +0000 UTC Message-ID: <1404728392.19389.1.camel@archlinux> Subject: Re: The name "grep" From: Ralf Mardorf To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 07 Jul 2014 12:19:52 +0200 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> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.12.3 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 07 Jul 2014 10:21:40 -0000 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.