From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 9 21:31:23 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B6F3437B401 for ; Wed, 9 Oct 2002 21:31:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from russian-caravan.cloud9.net (russian-caravan.cloud9.net [168.100.1.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D8E7943E8A for ; Wed, 9 Oct 2002 21:31:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com) Received: from earl-grey.cloud9.net (earl-grey.cloud9.net [168.100.1.1]) by russian-caravan.cloud9.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 345B732768 for ; Thu, 10 Oct 2002 00:31:20 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 00:31:20 -0400 (EDT) From: Peter Leftwich X-X-Sender: To: FreeBSD LIST Subject: Re: Please help me In-Reply-To: <02b701c2700c$07d78b00$fa00a8c0@DaleCoportable> Message-ID: <20021010002725.M41584-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net> Organization: Video2Video Services - http://Www.Video2Video.Com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 9 Oct 2002, DaleCo, S.P.---'the solutions people' wrote: > Or ... > Global Regular Expression Print > Get Regular Expression Processing > Global Regular Expression Parser I just think of the command "grep" as part grab, part schlep. But come to think of it, your first answer seems right except for the "P." > While we're on the subject of origins and meanings, you've heard, I > suppose, that C was just a joke ..... ;-) > Kevin Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. Do you have a URL to back up this "C started as a joke" tale?? > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Eric Wayte" > To: "Toby Irvine" > Cc: > Sent: Wednesday, October 09, 2002 10:14 PM > Subject: Re: Please help me > > > Try this: http://www.dictionary.com/search?q=grep Odd that dictionary.com would have grep! The manpage for grep contains not one instance of the word "global," how bizarre. > > On Wed, 9 Oct 2002, Toby Irvine wrote: > > > I have one question for you. I have been looking to find out what the > > > command/utility "grep" actually means or stands for. I have searched the > > > net and keep finding the same answer, which I have been told is wrong. > > > Could you please help me out and let me know. Someone told me that only an > > > old school unix person would be able to tell me. Please help? -- Peter Leftwich President & Founder Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA +1-413-403-9555 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message