Expansion of the acronym "grep"

[Badri Lokanathan]

>In article <1989Jun4.185134.13185 at gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca>,
romwa at gpu.utcs.UUCP (Royal Ontario Museum) writes:
>| grep < global regular expression
>
In article <25849 at amdcad.AMD.COM> tim at amd.com (Tim Olson) writes:
>"grep" comes from a (once) commonly-used ed command:
>
>	g/RE/p
>

I like to call it "Global REcognize Pattern" for novices, since it is
kind of difficult to explain the notion of a regular expression.
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