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From: bobmon@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (RAMontante)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Using zoo
Message-ID: <16649@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu>
Date: 20 Jan 89 03:30:17 GMT
Reply-To: bobmon@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (RAMontante)
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->called "find" (which SHOULD have been called GREP!).
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-Does anyone else find this statement funny?  Not that it doesn't make
	[ ... ]
-Still, Unix is infamous for cryptic acronyms and I got a few chuckles
-from reading that a utility called FIND should have been called GREP.


'grep' isn't cryptic -- it _obviously_ stands for General Regular
Expression Parser.  (Or maybe it stands for g/reg-exp/p, if you speak
ed, ex, or vi.)

'find' IS cryptic -- you tell me what it stands for!

:-) :-) :-) :-)

Seriously, 'find' should not be called 'grep' unless your find knows
about wildcards in its strings.  Mine doesn't.
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