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Re: unix acronyms -collecting a list?

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From: Charlie Sorsby
Date: Wed, 28 May 1997 00:00
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In article <5ldbk0$ha2@web.nmti.com>, Peter da Silva <peter@nmti.com> wrote:
= In article <337A12AD.A95CC34@uniqserve.com>,
= Dr. Borg <vladiQmip@uniQserve.com> wrote:
= > grep - global regular expression parser
= g/re/p		Global / Regular Expresion / Print

My recollection is that it orginally meant "Get Regular Expression
and Print."  I.e. get occurances of some regular expression and print
them.


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From: crs@lanl.gov (Charlie Sorsby)
Subject: Re: unix acronyms -collecting a list?
Date: 1997/05/28
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