Re: unix acronyms -collecting a list?

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From: Robert Seeger
Date: Thu, 15 May 1997 00:00

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Actually, it comes from sed's command g/re/p
Which is where vi got it from, also.
			Robert Seeger


Elchonon Edelson wrote:
> 
> Dr. Borg wrote:
> >
> > grep - global regular expression parser
> 
> Actually, this came from the vi editor's regular expression
> global command. "g/re/p" at the : commandline meant
> global/regular-expression/print. It would search for the
> regexp globally, and display all matching lines.
> 
> > mv - move
> > cat - catenate
> > tee - T
> > fifo - first in, first out
> 
> (no mention of gigo?)
> 
> >
> > --
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> 
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From: Robert Seeger <rseeger@baynetworks.com>
Subject: Re: unix acronyms -collecting a list?
Date: 1997/05/15
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