On Sat, Oct 12, 2002 at 02:21:53PM +0100, Ceri Davies wrote: > On Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 07:07:33PM +0100, Ceri Davies wrote: > > 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). > > As a couple of people have pointed out in private mail, I typed "sed" there, > where I meant "ed". > I still use ed a lot ! I think the wimp that replaced "?" and "??" with meaningful error messages needs his bottom spanked.
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