Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!apple!oliveb!pyramid!ctnews!mitisft!kemnitz From: kemnitz@mitisft.Convergent.COM (Gregory Kemnitz) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: Expansion of the acronym "grep" Summary: grep = get print Message-ID: <716@mitisft.Convergent.COM> Date: 6 Jun 89 17:17:33 GMT References: <25249@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> <8170003@hpfcdq.HP.COM> Organization: Convergent Technologies, San Jose, CA Lines: 19 I read in a UNIX book (I forgot which one) at some time that "grep" stands for the commands from the ed(1) editor that can be used to approximate it: g/re/p which is read as get /regular_expression/ print. egrep is extended grep with more general regular expressions than those in ed(1) fgrep is fast grep with literal strings only. -- ----------------------------------+-------------------------------------- Greg Kemnitz | "He who does not understand baseball kemnitz@Convergent.COM | will never understand America" | --Tocqueville