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From: badri@valhalla.ee.rochester.edu (Badri Lokanathan)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Expansion of the acronym "grep"
Message-ID: <2274@valhalla.ee.rochester.edu>
Date: 5 Jun 89 09:52:06 GMT
References: <25249@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> <1989Jun4.185134.13185@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca> <25849@amdcad.AMD.COM>
Reply-To: badri@ee.rochester.edu (Badri Lokanathan)
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>In article <1989Jun4.185134.13185@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca>,
romwa@gpu.utcs.UUCP (Royal Ontario Museum) writes:
>| grep < global regular expression
>
In article <25849@amdcad.AMD.COM> tim@amd.com (Tim Olson) writes:
>"grep" comes from a (once) commonly-used ed command:
>
>	g/RE/p
>

I like to call it "Global REcognize Pattern" for novices, since it is
kind of difficult to explain the notion of a regular expression.
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