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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.netspace.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!mindspring!psinntp!news.ml.com!news From: willettm@ml.com (Mike Willett LADS LDN X1176) 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: 15 May 1997 09:01:27 GMT Organization: Merrill Lynch Lines: 12 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <5lejd7$61l@news.ml.com> References: <5kd2ng$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: gstldn22.bolon.uk.ml.com X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.shell:44959 comp.os.linux.misc:175345 comp.os.linux.x:61579 alt.os.linux:21154 comp.unix.bsd.misc:3226 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:40911 gnu.misc.discuss:31264 comp.unix.solaris:106536 In article <337A12AD.A95CC34@uniqserve.com>, "Dr. Borg" <vladiQmip@uniQserve.com> writes: >Wayne Cochran - CS wrote: >...... >grep - global regular expression parser I read that this name actually came from the ed command :g/re/p which was global regular-expression print Mike Willett