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From: crs@lanl.gov (Charlie Sorsby)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: unix acronyms -collecting a list?
Date: 28 May 1997 15:30:30 GMT
Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory
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In article <5ldbk0$ha2@web.nmti.com>, Peter da Silva <peter@nmti.com> wrote:
= In article <337A12AD.A95CC34@uniqserve.com>,
= Dr. Borg <vladiQmip@uniQserve.com> wrote:
= > grep - global regular expression parser
= g/re/p Global / Regular Expresion / Print
My recollection is that it orginally meant "Get Regular Expression
and Print." I.e. get occurances of some regular expression and print
them.
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Best,
Charlie "Older than dirt" Sorsby "I'm the NRA!"
crs@swcp.com crs@hamlet.lanl.gov Life Member since 1965