On Sat, Oct 12, 2002 at 02:21:53PM +0100, Ceri Davies wrote:
> 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".
>
I still use ed a lot ! I think the wimp that replaced "?" and "??" with
meaningful error messages needs his bottom spanked.
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