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From: janm@eliot.UUCP (Jan Morales)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Expansion of the acronym "grep"
Message-ID: <397@eliot.UUCP>
Date: 7 Jun 89 18:35:23 GMT
References: <25249@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> <8170003@hpfcdq.HP.COM>
Reply-To: janm@eliot.UUCP (Jan Morales)
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In article <8170003@hpfcdq.HP.COM> benji@hpfcdq.HP.COM (Jeff Benjamin) writes:
>I have heard that "grep" stands for "general regular expression parser."

I heard it comes from how you do the same thing in `ed' or `vi':

	g/<regular expression>/p
	^  ^       ^           ^
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