Actually I believe it is an acronym for the set of key commands that was required to affect a regular expression search in vi.
Weston On Thursday 10 October 2002 03:08 am, 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? > > > > Thank you, > > > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
