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Subject: Re: Origin of the name grep - (nf)
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Date: Tue, 28-Aug-84 00:18:04 EDT
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ism780!steve    Aug 27 09:48:00 1984

I believe that the name "grep" comes from the ed command:

	g/re/p

(re = regular expression)