Expansion of the acronym "grep"

[Cliff Marcellus]

In article <883 at nebulus.UUCP>, ram at nebulus.UUCP (Richard Meesters) writes:
> > > What is the correct expansion of the acronym "grep"? I'm told that this
> > 
> > I have heard that "grep" stands for "general regular expression parser."
> 
> I thought it stood for "global regular expression parser".
> 

sorry guys, it was its' roots in "ed" "grep" comes from the expression
"g/re/p" meaning Global Regular Expression Print.

Cheers


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