From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 11 8:58:55 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 2149E37B401 for ; Fri, 11 Oct 2002 08:58:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from w2xo.jcdurham.com (18.gibs5.xdsl.nauticom.net [209.195.184.19]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 59A4443E88 for ; Fri, 11 Oct 2002 08:58:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from durham@w2xo.pgh.pa.us) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by w2xo.jcdurham.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g9BFwjS56019; Fri, 11 Oct 2002 15:58:46 GMT (envelope-from durham@w2xo.pgh.pa.us) Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2002 15:58:45 +0000 (GMT) From: Jim Durham X-Sender: durham@w2xo.jcdurham.com To: Toby Irvine Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Please help me In-Reply-To: Message-ID: 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, 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? > > Get Regular Expression Pattern -Jim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message