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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!mindspring!cssun.mathcs.emory.edu!news-feed-1.peachnet.edu!paperboy.engeast.baynetworks.com!newsmaster From: Robert Seeger <rseeger@baynetworks.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: Thu, 15 May 1997 11:21:08 -0400 Organization: Bay Networks Lines: 33 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <337B29E4.17FB@baynetworks.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> <337A432A.2781@isoft.com> Reply-To: rseeger@baynetworks.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 132.245.185.82 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (Win95; I) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.shell:44999 comp.os.linux.misc:175441 comp.os.linux.x:61626 alt.os.linux:21179 comp.unix.bsd.misc:3244 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:40960 gnu.misc.discuss:31282 comp.unix.solaris:106596 Actually, it comes from sed's command g/re/p Which is where vi got it from, also. Robert Seeger Elchonon Edelson wrote: > > 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/