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From: alan@oetl.UUCP (Alan Strassberg)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: gres for BSD
Message-ID: <417@oetl1.oetl.UUCP>
Date: 12 Feb 89 18:23:28 GMT
References: <8413@louie.udel.EDU> <175@ssp11.idca.tds.philips.nl>
Reply-To: alan@oetl.UUCP (Alan Strassberg)
Organization: Lockheed Missiles & Space Co., Santa Cruz, CA.
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>>BTW, where did gres come from?  Was it standard on Version 7?
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>I never heard of it before MINIX, but I recently found that it is also
[]
>Just curious...

	"There was once a program called gres that did simple
	substitution, but it expired almost immediately when
	sed was born"

	Quote from paragraph about "why do we have both sed and grep ?"

	From  The Unix Programming Environment by Kernighan and Pike
	page 111.
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