On Mon, 2002-08-26 at 10:21, Nick Rout wrote:
> Now where the hell did they get awk, glob & grep from?

grep:
The name grep is derived from the editor command g/re/p , which
literally translates to "globally search for a regular expression and
print what you find.

glob:
To expand special characters in a wildcarded name, or the act of so
doing (the action is also called `globbing'). 

Mark



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