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From: runyan@hpirs.HP.COM (Mark Runyan)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: grep
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Date: 16 Jun 89 14:57:40 GMT
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>/ zuro@ccf3.nrl.navy.mil /  4:44 am  Jun 13, 1989 /
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>  I believe that grep translates to "global regular expression print".

From _The_Unix_Programming_Environment_ by Brian Kernighan and Rob Pike:

p 18

"...The name cames from the ed command g/regular-expression/p,..."

This may not be the right answer, but it *is* documented.  :-)