Expansion of the acronym "grep"

[Paul S. Sawyer]

In article <9447 at alice.UUCP>, andrew at alice.UUCP (Andrew Hume) writes:
...
:> al aho coined egrep for an extended grep which handled alternation amongst 
:> other things
:> he also coind fgrep for the special case of looking for fixed strings.
:> it has never NEVER NEVER NEVER NEVER stood for fast grep
:> (as anyone with a clock could tell).

Then why does TFM, direct from AT&T, say "fgrep (fast grep) searches [etc.]..."
(Paper manual, System V.2.1)

:> if you don't believe me, mail ava at research.att.com and ask al aho yourself.

I might, but mail to that company seems to do funny things unless postage is
attached (i.e., sent thru attmail...)


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