Expansion of the acronym "grep"

[Jan Morales]

In article <8170003 at hpfcdq.HP.COM> benji at hpfcdq.HP.COM (Jeff Benjamin) writes:
>I have heard that "grep" stands for "general regular expression parser."

I heard it comes from how you do the same thing in `ed' or `vi':

	g/<regular expression>/p
	^  ^       ^           ^
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