Re: unix acronyms -collecting a list?

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From: Jon LaBadie
Date: Sun, 18 May 1997 00:00

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In article <01bc622b$b51fb0c0$f8298acd@sgifford.tir.com>, "Scott W. Gifford" <sgifford@tir.com> writes:
|> 
|>   The story that I have heard about grep is that the name comes from a
|> common usage of Sed...In pre-grep days, the same thing was (and still can
|> be) accomplished with:
|> 
|> 	sed -e g/regular expression/p
|> 
|> As this usage became more common, documentation, newsgroups messages, etc.
|> began to abbreviate "regular expression" to "re", leading to people talking
|> about:
|> 
|> 	sed -e g/re/p
|> 
|> And that, as they say is history.  I don't remember where this story came
|> from, and there's a fair-to-middling chance it has no basis in fact, but I
|> choose to believe it.


I find this repeated misinformation about sed and grep amazing.
Particularly as sed has NO GLOBAL COMMAND!!!

    $ sed -e 'g/x/p' /etc/termcap
    sed: command garbled: g/x/p

sed has a "g" command to "get" the hold space.
sed has a "g" flag to the "s" command.

Drop the "s" from "sed" guys and you got it.

jl
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From: jon@jgcomp.jvnc.net (Jon LaBadie)
Subject: Re: unix acronyms -collecting a list?
Date: 1997/05/18
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