From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Oct 12 6:21:56 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 6F9D137B401 for ; Sat, 12 Oct 2002 06:21:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rhadamanth.submonkey.net (pc1-cdif2-4-cust210.cdf.cable.ntl.com [80.4.10.210]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 96E4743E9C for ; Sat, 12 Oct 2002 06:21:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from setantae@submonkey.net) Received: from setantae by rhadamanth.submonkey.net with local (Exim 4.10) id 180MDJ-00011l-00 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Sat, 12 Oct 2002 14:21:53 +0100 Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2002 14:21:53 +0100 From: Ceri Davies To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Please help me Message-ID: <20021012132153.GC3899@submonkey.net> References: <20021011180733.GC9214@submonkey.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20021011180733.GC9214@submonkey.net> X-message-flag: All your linuxconf-configured redhat are belong to us. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i 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 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". Ceri -- you can't see when light's so strong you can't see when light is gone To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message