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- From: erik@peewee.nwc.navy.mil (Erik van Bronkhorst Code 3814 Phone 939-1421)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
- Subject: Re: grep
- Message-ID: <Bxo2n9.Lvn@avalon.nwc.navy.mil>
- Date: 13 Nov 92 18:13:57 GMT
- References: <6370@sersun1.essex.ac.uk> <1992Nov12.144322.11444@ericsson.se> <1992Nov13.113839.25046@dlpinc00.rn.com>
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- In article <1992Nov13.113839.25046@dlpinc00.rn.com> dlparker@dlpinc00.rn.com (David L. Parker) writes:
- >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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- I thought it meant Gorns Rarely Eat People...
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