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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.uwa.edu.au!disco.iinet.net.au!news1.mpcs.com!news.radio.cz!europa.clark.net!news-peer.sprintlink.net!news-pull.sprintlink.net!news-in-east.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!Sprint!158.43.192.17!rill.news.pipex.net!pipex!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!news.pir.net!not-for-mail From: 2010$fribble@pir.net (Peter Radcliffe) 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 16:28:11 GMT Organization: involved in moving 4000 miles: lots. Lines: 29 Distribution: world Message-ID: <5mhmer$6kl$1@moek.pir.net> References: <5mhj2m$6kk$1@newshost.lanl.gov> NNTP-Posting-Host: pur.uunet.pipex.com X-no-archive: yes X-Comment: Boycott Internet Spam! See http://spam.abuse.net/spam/ X-Newsreader: Nope, its ASCII based. Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.shell:45498 comp.os.linux.misc:177433 comp.unix.bsd.misc:3438 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:41771 gnu.misc.discuss:31526 Charlie Sorsby <crs@lanl.gov> probably said: >In article <5ldbk0$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. From the Jargon File: ] grep ] ] /grep/ vt. [from the qed/ed editor idiom g/re/p , where re stands for a ] regular expression, to Globally search for the Regular Expression and ] Print the lines containing matches to it, via UNIX `grep(1)'] To rapidly ] scan a file or set of files looking for a particular string or pattern ] (when browsing through a large set of files, one may speak of `grepping ] around'). By extension, to look for something by pattern. "Grep the ] bulletin board for the system backup schedule, would you?" See also vgrep. Peter is right (hi Peter :) 'Get Regular Expression and Print' is a myth. \pir -- pir pir@darkwave.org.uk pir@pir.net pir@shore.net