Expansion of the acronym "grep"

[Richard Childers]

glass at mica.berkeley.edu () writes:

>What is the correct expansion of the acronym "grep"?

	grep == Global Regular Expression Pattern

>I'd also be interested in knowing what the acronyms for the other flavors
>of grep (e.g. egrp) expand to.

	egrep == extended grep		additional pattern metacharacters

	fgrep == fast grep		optimized for fast pattern searches

>--Brett

-- richard


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