Expansion of the acronym "grep"

[rsilvers]

In article <883 at nebulus.UUCP> ram at nebulus.UUCP (Richard Meesters) writes:
>In article <8170003 at hpfcdq.HP.COM>, benji at hpfcdq.HP.COM (Jeff Benjamin) 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".
>Richard Meesters

     I thought it was "Grab Regular ExPression."

				--Rob.

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