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Subject: Re: Origin of the name grep - (nf)
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Date: Mon, 27-Aug-84 12:44:00 EDT
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uicsl!sarwate    Aug 27 11:44:00 1984

grep stands for g/re/p which is an ed command to print all lines matching
the thing within the /'s.  re means regular expression in this context.

Reference: B. W. Kernighan, "Advanced Editing on UNIX", p. 15, in
UNIX Programmer's Manual, vol. 2A, Jan. 1979.