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Subject: Re: Origin of the name grep - (nf)
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Date: Tue, 28-Aug-84 00:31:53 EDT
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ism780b!jim    Aug 27 10:55:00 1984

The name grep comes from the ed command

g/re/p

(Global search for Regular Expression and Print).