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Article #4465Re: unix acronyms -collecting a list?
From: Eric Fischer
Date: Fri, 16 May 1997 00:00
Date: Fri, 16 May 1997 00:00
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Scott W. Gifford <sgifford@tir.com> wrote: > 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 You've got the spirit right but the facts wrong: g/re/p is an ed command which was extracted into a command of its own so it could be applied to files that were too big for ed to cope with. Sed didn't appear (as a generalization of the earlier gres command, which, as its name suggests, did a global regexp substitution) until Seventh Edition Unix. eric
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