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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!uuneo.neosoft.com!web.nmti.com!peter From: peter@nmti.com (Peter da Silva) 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: 16 May 1997 20:44:09 GMT Organization: Network/development platform support, NMTI Lines: 28 Message-ID: <5ligup$am@web.nmti.com> References: <5kd2ng$c8b$1@rzsun02.rrz.uni-hamburg.de> <5ldtv3$jnm@eve.speakeasy.org> <337B0F6C.4C71614A@indiana.edu> <01bc622b$b51fb0c0$f8298acd@sgifford.tir.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: sonic.nmti.com X-No-Archive: yes Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.shell:45089 comp.os.linux.misc:175731 comp.os.linux.x:61796 alt.os.linux:21260 comp.unix.bsd.misc:3289 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:41083 gnu.misc.discuss:31332 comp.unix.solaris:106747 In article <01bc622b$b51fb0c0$f8298acd@sgifford.tir.com>, Scott W. Gifford <sgifford@tir.com> wrote: > The story that I have heard about grep is that the name comes from a > common usage of Sed.. ed grep is older than sed. In Version 6 most of the stuff you do with sed was done with 'grep' and 'gres' Gres? Global/Regular Expression/Substitute From the "ed" command syntax: g/re/p g/re/s/original/new/ > sed -e g/regular expression/p Except that in "sed" the g is implied. -- The Reverend Peter da Silva, ULC, COQO, BOFH, 3D0G, KIBO, POPE Ziggy Wotzit II. Har du kramat din varg, idag? `-_-' What is reality, Papa? Hail Eris! All Hail Discordia! Vi er alle Kibo. HEIL KIBO! HEIL KIBO! HEIL KIBO! Wir sind alle Kibo.