What does grep stand for?

[Warren E. Agin]

"A Unix command for
searching files for lines matching a given regular
expression (RE). Named after the qed/ed editor
subcommand "g/re/p", where re stands for a regular expression,
to Globally search for the Regular Expression and Print the
lines containing matches to it."

from  http://hostingworks.com/support/dict.phtml?foldoc=grep

-Warren Agin

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