Origin of the name grep - (nf)

steve at ism780.UUCP steve at ism780.UUCP
Tue Aug 28 14:18:04 AEST 1984


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ism780!steve    Aug 27 09:48:00 1984

I believe that the name "grep" comes from the ed command:

	g/re/p

(re = regular expression)



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