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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!usenet2.news.uk.psi.net!uknet!usenet1.news.uk.psi.net!uknet!uknet!lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk!not-for-mail From: fanf2@cam.ac.uk (Tony Finch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc,alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: On the Naming of UNIX Things Date: 8 Nov 1996 19:28:45 -0000 Organization: Coll: SS. et Indiv: Trin: Cant: Lines: 15 Message-ID: <5601ld$866@dex.trin.cam.ac.uk> References: <55vhpf$q3o@mail1.wg.waii.com> <328386bc.112278367@news.ov.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: dex.trin.cam.ac.uk Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.misc:26181 comp.unix.bsd.misc:1436 alt.folklore.computers:124215 pete.barber@openv.co.uk (Pete Barber) wrote: > Mark Whetzel <markw@zeus.wg.waii.com> wrote: > > >Some of the others I have heard about: the naming of 'biff', grep, yacc. > > biff - dunno Supposedly after a dog that would bark at the postman. > grep GetREgularePression It's from ed syntax: g/re/p globally searches for the regular expression re and prints lines that match. Tony.