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From: childers@avsd.UUCP (Richard Childers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Expansion of the acronym "grep"
Message-ID: <1261@avsd.UUCP>
Date: 9 Jun 89 18:12:14 GMT
References: <25249@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>
Reply-To: childers@avsd.UUCP (Richard Childers)
Organization: Metaprogrammers International
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glass@mica.berkeley.edu () writes:

>What is the correct expansion of the acronym "grep"?

	grep == Global Regular Expression Pattern

>I'd also be interested in knowing what the acronyms for the other flavors
>of grep (e.g. egrp) expand to.

	egrep == extended grep		additional pattern metacharacters

	fgrep == fast grep		optimized for fast pattern searches

>--Brett

-- richard


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