Awatmath.1379 net.unix-wizards utzoo!decvax!watmath!bstempleton Tue Jan 5 22:02:12 1982 Re: Reply to: On On the name of grep, as I thought, it was a condensation of g/re/p (aka qed or ed) where p is for print instead of pattern. 'Regular expression pattern' is a bit redundant. ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.