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- From: dlparker@dlpinc00.rn.com (David L. Parker)
- Subject: Re: grep
- Message-ID: <1992Nov13.113839.25046@dlpinc00.rn.com>
- Organization: Automated Data Management Services
- References: <6370@sersun1.essex.ac.uk> <1992Nov12.144322.11444@ericsson.se>
- Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 11:38:39 GMT
- Lines: 18
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- In article <1992Nov12.144322.11444@ericsson.se> etxmesa@eos.ericsson.se (Michael Salmon) writes:
- >In article <6370@sersun1.essex.ac.uk>,
- >peter@essex.ac.uk writes:
- >|> A quick question I was asked this morning. "Why is grep so called?"
- >
- >It comes from an ed command:
- >
- >g/re/p
- >
- >i.e. globally search for a regular expression and print those lines
- >that match.
- >
-
- Actually it's Global Regular Expression Parser.
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