From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 9 20:20: 6 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA95337B401 for ; Wed, 9 Oct 2002 20:20:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from topaz.mdcc.cx (topaz.mdcc.cx [212.204.230.141]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E77443E42 for ; Wed, 9 Oct 2002 20:20:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from edwin@mavetju.org) Received: from k7.mavetju (topaz.mdcc.cx [212.204.230.141]) by topaz.mdcc.cx (Postfix) with ESMTP id 267B22B837; Thu, 10 Oct 2002 05:19:44 +0200 (CEST) Received: by k7.mavetju (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 8E5CB6A712B; Thu, 10 Oct 2002 13:19:16 +1000 (EST) Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 13:19:16 +1000 From: Edwin Groothuis To: Toby Irvine Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Please help me Message-ID: <20021010031916.GL930@k7.mavetju> Mail-Followup-To: Edwin Groothuis , Toby Irvine , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 11:08:52PM -0400, 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? What is the wrong answer then? Global Regular Expression Print (had to google for the Print :-) See http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=what+does+grep+stand+for%3F&btnG=Google+Search for more. Edwin -- Edwin Groothuis | Personal website: http://www.MavEtJu.org edwin@mavetju.org | Weblog: http://www.mavetju.org/weblog/weblog.php bash$ :(){ :|:&};: | Interested in MUDs? http://www.FatalDimensions.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message