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From: maart@cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re^2: Expansion of the acronym "grep"
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Date: 10 Jun 89 03:25:24 GMT
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childers@avsd.UUCP (Richard Childers) writes:
\...	grep == Global Regular Expression Pattern
\...	fgrep == fast grep		optimized for fast pattern searches

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