Re: Currant Bun

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From: Trevor Best
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2000 00:00

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Richard Caley <spt@cstr.ed.ac.uk> wrote in message
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> Grep is an application name. No more obscure than Excel or
> Outlook.

But an acronym of what it does, Get Regular Expression and Print. Unlike
Excel, which is just an application name, you can grep these files but you
can't Excel them, files can't grep but they can excel :-)

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From: "Trevor Best" <trevor@besty.org.uk>
Subject: Re: Currant Bun
Date: 2000/01/28
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