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Date: Sun, 1 Mar 1998 15:17:26 -0500 (EST)
From: Mike Newell <mnewell@newell.arlington.va.us>
To: Johann Visagie <wjv@cityip.co.za>
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Subject: Re: what does grep stand for?
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Generalized Regular Expression Parser?  That's what I remember...

Mike

On Sun, 1 Mar 1998, Johann Visagie wrote:

wjv> Date: Sun, 1 Mar 1998 21:33:00 +0200 (SAT)
wjv> From: Johann Visagie <wjv@cityip.co.za>
wjv> To: Jake <jake@int.checker.org>
wjv> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
wjv> Subject: Re: what does grep stand for?
wjv> 
wjv> Jake wrote:
wjv> >
wjv> > My teacher says grep stands for Get Regular ExPression,
wjv> > I thought it was more complicated.
wjv> 
wjv> Global regular expression and print, I always thought.  In ed(1):
wjv> 
wjv>   g/re/p
wjv> 
wjv> -- V
wjv> 
wjv> Johann Visagie | Email: wjv@CityIP.co.za | Tel: +27 21 419-7878
wjv> 
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Much obliged,

Mike

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