Expansion of the acronym "grep"

[Andrew Hume]

In article <1246 at unh.UUCP>, pss at unh.UUCP (Paul S. Sawyer) writes:
> Then why does TFM, direct from AT&T, say "fgrep (fast grep) searches [etc.]..."
> 


the manual is the result of some (probably professional) copyediting,
particularly as it is now three manual pages, not one.
the Ninth Edition manual says "fgrep searches for fixed strings; it uses
a fast and compact algorithm." note that for the case of multiple keywords
it is within a constant of the optimal algorithm, so ``fast'' is justified.