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From: Joel Ray Holveck <joelh@gnu.ai.mit.edu>
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Subject: Re: unix acronyms -collecting a list?
Date: 14 May 1997 16:18:57 -0400
Organization: MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab
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"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

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