From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 11 11: 7:38 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 7E58237B401 for ; Fri, 11 Oct 2002 11:07:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rhadamanth.submonkey.net (pc1-cdif2-4-cust210.cdf.cable.ntl.com [80.4.10.210]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7CC7543E97 for ; Fri, 11 Oct 2002 11:07:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from setantae@submonkey.net) Received: from setantae by rhadamanth.submonkey.net with local (Exim 4.10) id 1804CE-0002Qh-00; Fri, 11 Oct 2002 19:07:34 +0100 Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2002 19:07:33 +0100 From: Ceri Davies To: Jim Durham Cc: Toby Irvine , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Please help me Message-ID: <20021011180733.GC9214@submonkey.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-message-flag: All your linuxconf-configured redhat are belong to us. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i 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 Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 03:58:45PM +0000, Jim Durham wrote: > > 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 Sorry, no banana. As someone else mentioned, it's from the g/re/p idiom in sed, which is vocalised as "global regular expression print" (print all lines containing the regular expression). Ceri -- you can't see when light's so strong you can't see when light is gone To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message