Path: utzoo!attcan!nebulus!ram
From: ram@nebulus.UUCP (Richard Meesters)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Expansion of the acronym "grep"
Message-ID: <883@nebulus.UUCP>
Date: 6 Jun 89 19:08:03 GMT
References: <25249@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> <8170003@hpfcdq.HP.COM>
Organization: Alchemy Mindworks,Toronto,Ontario
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In article <8170003@hpfcdq.HP.COM>, benji@hpfcdq.HP.COM (Jeff Benjamin) writes:
> > What is the correct expansion of the acronym "grep"? I'm told that this
> 
> I have heard that "grep" stands for "general regular expression parser."

I thought it stood for "global regular expression parser".

Regards,
Richard Meesters