From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Oct 12 7:40:14 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 E907A37B401 for ; Sat, 12 Oct 2002 07:40:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from post-20.mail.nl.demon.net (post-20.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5ED1543EB2 for ; Sat, 12 Oct 2002 07:40:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cls@raggedclown.net) Received: from [212.238.197.102] (helo=mailhost.raggedclown.net) by post-20.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1) id 180NQr-000Cpw-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 12 Oct 2002 14:39:57 +0000 Received: from willow.raggedclown.net (willow.raggedclown.intra [192.168.1.10]) by mailhost.raggedclown.net (Ragged Clown Mail Gateway [oz]) with ESMTP id CA63748331 for ; Sat, 12 Oct 2002 16:39:56 +0200 (CEST) Received: by willow.raggedclown.net (Ragged Clown Host [willow], from userid 1009) id 0B84922592; Sat, 12 Oct 2002 16:39:57 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2002 16:39:57 +0200 From: Cliff Sarginson To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Please help me Message-ID: <20021012143957.GB15158@raggedclown.net> References: <20021011180733.GC9214@submonkey.net> <20021012132153.GC3899@submonkey.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20021012132153.GC3899@submonkey.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i 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 Sat, Oct 12, 2002 at 02:21:53PM +0100, Ceri Davies wrote: > On Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 07:07:33PM +0100, Ceri Davies wrote: > > 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). > > As a couple of people have pointed out in private mail, I typed "sed" there, > where I meant "ed". > I still use ed a lot ! I think the wimp that replaced "?" and "??" with meaningful error messages needs his bottom spanked. -- Regards Cliff Sarginson The Netherlands Email: cls@raggedclown.net Tel : +31 (0)10 4764595 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message