Awatmath.1379 net.unix-wizards utzoo!decvax!watmath!bstempleton Tue Jan 5 22:02:12 1982 Re: Reply to: On On the name of grep, as I thought, it was a condensation of g/re/p (aka qed or ed) where p is for print instead of pattern. 'Regular expression pattern' is a bit redundant.