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What does grep stand for?

Subject: What does grep stand for?
From: wea at swiggartagin.com (Warren E. Agin)
Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2003 16:44:38 -0400
References: <200306022029.QAA11893@cso.fmr.com> <20030602203310.GA19253@tao.merseine.nu>

"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

----- Original Message ----- 

> > What does 'grep' stand for.
> >

References:
- What does grep stand for?
  - From: cdoerbec at cso.fmr.com (Christoph Doerbeck a242369)
- What does grep stand for?
  - From: dsr at tao.merseine.nu (dsr at tao.merseine.nu)

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