Expansion of the acronym "grep"
Stephen J. Friedl
friedl at vsi.COM
Sat Jun 10 11:24:10 AEST 1989
> >> > What is the correct expansion of the acronym "grep"? I'm told that this
> >> I have heard that "grep" stands for "general regular expression parser."
> >I thought it stood for "global regular expression parser".
> >Richard Meesters
>
> I thought it was "Grab Regular ExPression."
How many of these can people come up with? Please stop posting
these silly answers, because each is wrong.
S/tev/e
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