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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!como.dpie.gov.au!news.gan.net.au!act.news.telstra.net!news.telstra.net!psgrain!news.uoregon.edu!news.mem.bellsouth.net!news.bna.bellsouth.net!news.msy.bellsouth.net!news.cha.bellsouth.net!news.atl.bellsouth.net!uunet!in1.uu.net!194.162.162.196!newsfeed.nacamar.de!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.kei.com!uhog.mit.edu!entertainment-tonight.ai.mit.edu!ai-lab!usenet From: Joel Ray Holveck <joelh@gnu.ai.mit.edu> 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: 14 May 1997 16:18:57 -0400 Organization: MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab Lines: 19 Sender: joelh@ethanol.gnu.ai.mit.edu Distribution: inet Message-ID: <sej4tc5958u.fsf@ethanol.gnu.ai.mit.edu> References: <5kd2ng$c8b$1@rzsun02.rrz.uni-hamburg.de> <5l3c2f$i1j@pasilla.bbnplanet.com> <337A003F.6A7B@ncofsi.com> <3378D37F.462F3A47@gaijin.com> <Pine.SUN.3.95.970513170134.19438A-100000@omni2> <Pine.GSO.3.96.970513200952.7143D-100000@tree.Stanford.EDU> <EA6HHD.AAF@serval.net.wsu.edu> <337A12AD.A95CC34@uniQserve.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: ethanol.gnu.ai.mit.edu X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.3/Emacs 19.34 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.shell:44941 comp.os.linux.misc:175295 comp.os.linux.x:61561 alt.os.linux:21135 comp.unix.bsd.misc:3216 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:40894 gnu.misc.discuss:31255 comp.unix.solaris:106503 "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