Expansion of the acronym "grep"

[Doug Gwyn]

In article <219 at mipos3.intel.com> pete at escher.intel.com (Peter Johnson ~) writes:
>"fgrep" gets its name from "fast grep", and it only supports searching
>for strings (so the re in its name is a misnomer.)

(So is the "fast".)

There are numerous implementations of various flavors of the "grep" tool.
Some people have even merged all the variants into a single tool.