>/ zuro at ccf3.nrl.navy.mil / 4:44 am Jun 13, 1989 / > > I believe that grep translates to "global regular expression print". >From _The_Unix_Programming_Environment_ by Brian Kernighan and Rob Pike: p 18 "...The name cames from the ed command g/regular-expression/p,..." This may not be the right answer, but it *is* documented. :-)