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From: romwa@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca (Royal Ontario Museum)
Date: Sun, 4-Jun-89 18:51:34 EDT
Message-ID: <1989Jun4.185134.13185@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca>
Organization: University of Toronto Computing Services
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Expansion of the acronym "grep"
References: <25249@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>
Reply-To: romwa@gpu.utcs.UUCP (Royal Ontario Museum)

In article <25249@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> glass@mica.berkeley.edu () writes:
>What is the correct expansion of the acronym "grep"? I'm told that this
>has come up in comp.unix.questions before, but the relevant articles are
>no longer on my news server. I'd also be interested in knowing what the
>acronyms for the other flavors of grep (e.g. egrp) expand to.

grep < global regular expression

Mark T. Dornfeld
Royal Ontario Museum
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