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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!ncar!csn!nntp-xfer-1.csn.net!utulsa.utulsa.edu!TUred!jab From: jab@TUred (John Bailey) 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? Followup-To: 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 Date: 15 May 1997 04:15:08 GMT Organization: The University of Tulsa Lines: 32 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <5le2kc$btq@utulsa.utulsa.edu> References: <5kd2ng$c8b$1@rzsun02.rrz.uni-hamburg.de> <sej4tc5958u.fsf@ethanol.gnu.ai.mit.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: tured.pa.utulsa.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.shell:44936 comp.os.linux.misc:175289 comp.os.linux.x:61558 alt.os.linux:21133 comp.unix.bsd.misc:3213 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:40891 gnu.misc.discuss:31252 comp.unix.solaris:106501 Joel Ray Holveck (joelh@gnu.ai.mit.edu) wrote: : "Dr. Borg" <vladiQmip@uniQserve.com> writes: : > grep - global regular expression parser : Actually, it comes from the ed idiom 'g/re/p'. In ed, you see, : 'g/re/command-list' applies 'command-list' to each line that matches : 're'. (The 'g' is the command, and the slashes delimit the re.) : Then, 'p' is the 'print line' command. : Happy hacking, : joelh : -- : http://www.wp.com/piquan --- Joel Ray Holveck --- joelh@gnu.ai.mit.edu : All my opinions are my own, not the Free Software Foundation's. : Second law of programming: : Anything that can go wrong wi : sendmail: segmentation violation -- core dumped 99% correct. "g" stands for "global", i.e., the entire file being edited. -- +---------------------------------------------------------------------+ |John A. Bailey |phone: (918) 631-3148 (Worldwide) | |Petroleum Abstracts | (800) 247-8678 (US & CA) | |The University of Tulsa |fax: (918) 599-9361 | |600 S. College Ave - HH 102 |telex: not available | |Tulsa, OK 74104-3189 USA |Internet: jab@TUred.pa.utulsa.edu | | | |I do not speak for The University of Tulsa or Petroleum Abstracts | +---------------------------------------------------------------------+