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From: rsilvers@palladium.UUCP (rsilvers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Expansion of the acronym "grep"
Message-ID: <709@palladium.UUCP>
Date: 7 Jun 89 15:37:05 GMT
References: <25249@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> <8170003@hpfcdq.HP.COM> <883@nebulus.UUCP>
Reply-To: rsilvers@palladium.UUCP (rsilvers)
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In article <883@nebulus.UUCP> ram@nebulus.UUCP (Richard Meesters) writes:
>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".
>Richard Meesters

     I thought it was "Grab Regular ExPression."

				--Rob.

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