What does grep stand for?

[ron.peterson at yellowbank.com]

On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 09:30:34PM -0400, Scott Prive wrote:
> > g/[re]/p
> 
> Obviously re is regular expression... but what's g and p (or g/ /p)?

globally search for regular expression and print.  You can still do this
in vi today.

:%g/<regular expression here>/p

for example.

-- 
Ron Peterson                   -o)
87 Taylor Street               /\\
Granby, MA  01033             _\_v
https://www.yellowbank.com/   ----