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What does grep stand for?

Subject: What does grep stand for?
From: dsr at tao.merseine.nu (dsr at tao.merseine.nu)
Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2003 20:33:10 +0000
In-reply-to: <200306022029.QAA11893@cso.fmr.com>
References: <200306022029.QAA11893@cso.fmr.com>

On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 04:29:20PM -0400, Christoph Doerbeck a242369 wrote:
> 
> 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.

global regular expression print.

Origin is explained in the Jargon File.

-dsr-


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