Origin of the name grep

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Mon Aug 27 01:00:08 AEST 1984

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From:  "R. M. Gray" <gray at SU-ISL.ARPA>

grep comes from the ed command
g/regular-expression/p
(see p. 18 of The Unix Programming Environment by Kernighan & Pike)

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