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From: friedl@vsi.COM (Stephen J. Friedl)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Expansion of the acronym "grep"
Summary: STOP IT
Message-ID: <1129@vsi.COM>
Date: 10 Jun 89 01:24:10 GMT
Organization: V-Systems, Inc. -- Santa Ana, CA
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> >> > 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."

How many of these can people come up with?  Please stop posting
these silly answers, because each is wrong.

     S/tev/e

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