grep

Mark Runyan runyan at hpirs.HP.COM
Sat Jun 17 00:57:40 AEST 1989


>/ zuro at ccf3.nrl.navy.mil /  4:44 am  Jun 13, 1989 /
>
>  I believe that grep translates to "global regular expression print".

>From _The_Unix_Programming_Environment_ by Brian Kernighan and Rob Pike:

p 18

"...The name cames from the ed command g/regular-expression/p,..."

This may not be the right answer, but it *is* documented.  :-)



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