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From: cliff@cpsc.ucalgary.ca (Cliff Marcellus)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Expansion of the acronym "grep"
Summary: two strikes
Message-ID: <1488@cs-spool.calgary.UUCP>
Date: 7 Jun 89 13:21:26 GMT
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In article <883@nebulus.UUCP>, ram@nebulus.UUCP (Richard Meesters) 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".
> 

sorry guys, it was its' roots in "ed" "grep" comes from the expression
"g/re/p" meaning Global Regular Expression Print.

Cheers


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