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From: Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.x,alt.os.linux,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,gnu.misc.discuss,comp.unix.solaris
Subject: Re: unix acronyms -collecting a list?
Date: 15 May 1997 01:58:06 +0200
Organization: SRCE Zagreb, Croatia
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Elchonon Edelson <wanderer@isoft.com> writes:
> Dr. Borg wrote:
> >
> > grep - global regular expression parser
>
> Actually, this came from the vi editor's regular expression
> global command. "g/re/p" at the : commandline meant
> global/regular-expression/print. It would search for the
> regexp globally, and display all matching lines.
Wasn't it the mighty ed (or a predecessor of ed's) that had g/re/p?
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Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr> | Student at FER Zagreb, Croatia
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