Expansion of the acronym "grep"

[Michael Stanley]

In article <709 at palladium.UUCP>, rsilvers at palladium.UUCP (rsilvers) writes:
> 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 heard a long time ago that the origin of the word grep was the following
old 'ed' command:

	g/re/p

where 'g' was a command meaning global (search through whole file),
're' stood for a regular expression, and 'p' meant print.  Basically,
this command accomplished the same thing (in the editor) that grep
accomplishes at the shell level.  If anyone can confirm this, I'd
definitely be interested to hear if it is correct.  I believe I read
this in an old UNIX manual.

	Michael Stanley