Expansion of the acronym "grep"

[Royal Ontario Museum]

In article <25249 at agate.BERKELEY.EDU> glass at mica.berkeley.edu () writes:
>What is the correct expansion of the acronym "grep"? I'm told that this
>has come up in comp.unix.questions before, but the relevant articles are
>no longer on my news server. I'd also be interested in knowing what the
>acronyms for the other flavors of grep (e.g. egrp) expand to.

grep < global regular expression

Mark T. Dornfeld
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