Expansion of the acronym "grep"

[Phil Eschallier]

In article <1989Jun4.185134.13185 at gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca>, romwa at gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca (Royal Ontario Museum) writes:
> In article <25249 at agate.BERKELEY.EDU> glass at mica.berkeley.edu () writes:
> >What is the correct expansion of the acronym "grep"? I'm told that this
> >has come up in comp.unix.questions before, but the relevant articles are
> >no longer on my news server. I'd also be interested in knowing what the
> >acronyms for the other flavors of grep (e.g. egrp) expand to.
> 
> grep < global regular expression
> 

	actually --
	grep  ==> global regular expression parser
	fgrep ==> fixed-string global regular expression parser
	egrep ==> extended global regular expression parser


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