On Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 03:58:45PM +0000, Jim Durham wrote: > > On Wed, 9 Oct 2002, Toby Irvine wrote: > > > I have one question for you. I have been looking to find out what the > > command/utility "grep" actually means or stands for. I have searched the > > net and keep finding the same answer, which I have been told is wrong. > > Could you please help me out and let me know. Someone told me that only an > > old school unix person would be able to tell me. Please help? > > > > > Get Regular Expression Pattern
Sorry, no banana. As someone else mentioned, it's from the g/re/p idiom in sed, which is vocalised as "global regular expression print" (print all lines containing the regular expression). Ceri -- you can't see when light's so strong you can't see when light is gone To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
