On Fri, Mar 23, 2007 at 05:12:04PM -0400, Steven W. Orr wrote: > On Friday, Mar 23rd 2007 at 16:33 -0400, quoth Jerry: > > =>Also, doesn't Grep stand for "global regular expression print"? > > General Regular Expression Processor
Jerry is correct. The name grep comes from the ed command g/regex/p: (search) global(ly for lines matching the) regular expression(, and) print. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] OpenPGP KeyID 0x57C3430B Holder of Past Knowledge CS, O- "Touch passion when it comes your way Stephen. It's rare enough as it is, don't walk away when it calls you by name." Marcus Cole _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
