What does grep stand for?

[warlord at MIT.EDU (Derek Atkins)]

g/re/p

It's sed/ed shorthand for global/regex/print

-derek

Christoph Doerbeck a242369 <cdoerbec at cso.fmr.com> writes:

> I've done very little hunting, but thought it might spark an
> alternative thread to the H!B thing.
> 
> What does 'grep' stand for.
> 
> Best I could come up with was 'general regular expression parser'?
> Still hunting though.
> 
> 
> 
> - Christoph
> 
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