Origin of the name grep

[lcc.richard at UCLA-LOCUS.ARPA]

From:            Richard Mathews <lcc.richard at UCLA-LOCUS.ARPA>

	Article-I.D.: pegasus.1641

	Does anybody know the origin of the word grep?
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	==> Ephrayim J. Naiman @ AT&T Information Systems Laboratories
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I believe that it comes from the 'ed' command:
	g/regular expression/p
which executes the print command on every line on which the "regular
expression" appears.  Thus 'grep' could be said to be an acronym for
"global regular expression print".

Richard M. Mathews
lcc!richard at ucla-cs