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From: "Weston M. Price" <wmprice@direcway.com>
To: "Toby Irvine" <tobyirvine@hotmail.com>,
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Subject: Re: Please help me
Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 00:30:08 +0000
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Actually I believe it is an acronym for the set of key commands that was=20
required to affect a regular expression search in vi.=20

Weston

On Thursday 10 October 2002 03:08 am, 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 t=
he
> 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 onl=
y an
> old school unix person would be able to tell me.  Please help?
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