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- From: peter@serv2.essex.ac.uk (Peter Allott)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
- Subject: Re grep
- Message-ID: <6382@sersun1.essex.ac.uk>
- Date: 13 Nov 92 10:57:43 GMT
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- Reply-To: peter@serv2.essex.ac.uk (Peter Allott)
- Organization: University of Essex, Colchester, UK
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- Yesterday I ask why grep was so called?
- Today I've had about a dozen replys
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- The best from Curt Tilmes <curt@vtucs.cc.vt.edu>
- who quotes "The jargon file"
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- grep: /grep/ [from the qed/ed editor idiom g/re/p , where
- re stands for a regular expression, to Globally search for the
- Regular Expression and Print the lines containing matches to it,
- via {{UNIX}} `grep(1)'] vt. To rapidly scan a file or file set
- looking for a particular string or pattern. By extension, to look
- for something by pattern. "Grep the bulletin board for the system
- backup schedule, would you?" See also {vgrep}.
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- Thank you all - Please stop!
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