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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!como.dpie.gov.au!news.gan.net.au!act.news.telstra.net!news.telstra.net!psgrain!news.rain.net!news.transport.com!not-for-mail From: Elchonon Edelson <wanderer@isoft.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.x,alt.os.linux,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,gnu.misc.discuss,comp.unix.solaris Subject: Re: unix acronyms -collecting a list? Date: Wed, 14 May 1997 18:56:42 -0400 Organization: IntelliSoft Corp Lines: 26 Message-ID: <337A432A.2781@isoft.com> References: <5kd2ng$c8b$1@rzsun02.rrz.uni-hamburg.de> <5l3c2f$i1j@pasilla.bbnplanet.com> <337A003F.6A7B@ncofsi.com> <3378D37F.462F3A47@gaijin.com> <Pine.SUN.3.95.970513170134.19438A-100000@omni2> <Pine.GSO.3.96.970513200952.7143D-100000@tree.Stanford.EDU> <EA6HHD.AAF@serval.net.wsu.edu> <337A12AD.A95CC34@uniQserve.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: gehenna.psgvb.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0Gold (X11; I; AIX 1) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.shell:44942 comp.os.linux.misc:175296 comp.os.linux.x:61562 alt.os.linux:21136 comp.unix.bsd.misc:3217 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:40895 gnu.misc.discuss:31256 comp.unix.solaris:106504 Dr. Borg wrote: > > grep - global regular expression parser Actually, this came from the vi editor's regular expression global command. "g/re/p" at the : commandline meant global/regular-expression/print. It would search for the regexp globally, and display all matching lines. > mv - move > cat - catenate > tee - T > fifo - first in, first out (no mention of gigo?) > > -- > My real email address is: <vladimip @ uniserve dot com> > #include <disclaimer.h> | *Good pings come in small packets* > Vancouver | Ceterum censeo Microsoftam delendam esse > British Columbia | SIGSIG -- signature too long (core dumped) -- Elchonon Edelson wanderer@isoft.com IntelliSoft Corp. http://www.isoft.com/