a question about GREP
mike ledoux
mwl+gnhlug at alumni.unh.edu
Fri Mar 23 18:43:18 EDT 2007
On Fri, Mar 23, 2007 at 05:12:04PM -0400, Steven W. Orr wrote:
> On Friday, Mar 23rd 2007 at 16:33 -0400, quoth Jerry:
>
> =>Also, doesn't Grep stand for "global regular expression print"?
>
> General Regular Expression Processor
Jerry is correct. The name grep comes from the ed command g/regex/p:
(search) global(ly for lines matching the) regular expression(, and) print.
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