What does grep stand for?

[paul.cour at verizon.net (paulc)]

Thanks for the casual Linux reference on BLU.

A helpful page that lists " MAN pages "
may be found at:
http://linux.ctyme.com/man/alpha0.htm

A quick source for Linux and Unix info ...

thanks

paulc




> 
> From: Christoph Doerbeck a242369 <cdoerbec at cso.fmr.com>
> Date: 2003/06/02 Mon PM 04:29:20 EDT
> To: discuss at blu.org
> Subject: What does grep stand for?
> 
> 
> 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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