What does grep stand for?

[dsr at tao.merseine.nu]

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.

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