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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Expansion of the acronym "grep"
Message-ID: <10392@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 11 Jun 89 04:48:12 GMT
References: <25249@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> <1261@avsd.UUCP>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <1261@avsd.UUCP> childers@avsd.UUCP (Richard Childers) writes:
>	grep == Global Regular Expression Pattern

No!  GREP is an acronym for Go Read Every Paragraph of the "Life
With UNIX", where you can find out what "grep" is an acronym for,
as well as many other things better gotten from a book than by
burning large amounts of network bandwidth.

One wonders why people who don't know the correct answer are
nonetheless so confident in their notions that they go ahead
and post misinformation.  Not that it really matters in this
case; what do we care where the name "grep" came from, so
long as we know what it does and how to employ it.