Re: Strange and wonderful prog names (was Re: Worst error messages...)

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From: len... Craig Scott Lennox
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 1990 17:03

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In article <8...@airgun.wg.waii.com> cev...@airgun.wg.waii.com (C E Evert) writes:

   No one has yet mentioned our friend 'grep'.
   I've heard (at least) two versions of where grep got its name.
   What's the correct (third?) one?


According to the official USENET list of "Commonly asked UNIX weenie
questions", grep stands for g/<re>/p ("global"/"regular
expression"/"print") which is the way to do regexp seaches under ex
and vi.

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Subject: Re: Strange and wonderful prog names (was Re: Worst error messages...)
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