Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2002 14:21:53 +0100 From: Ceri Davies <setantae@submonkey.net> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Please help me Message-ID: <20021012132153.GC3899@submonkey.net> In-Reply-To: <20021011180733.GC9214@submonkey.net> References: <F5z5b6KZmcK8r6beUzm00000029@hotmail.com> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0210111558220.49795-100000@w2xo.jcdurham.com> <20021011180733.GC9214@submonkey.net>
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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
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