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Article #1084Re: Currant Bun
From: Richard Tobin
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2000 00:00
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2000 00:00
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In article <86t3fp$grt$1@quince.news.easynet.net>, Trevor Best <trevor@besty.org.uk> wrote: >But an acronym of what it does, Get Regular Expression and Print. Close... it's actually a representation of the "ed" command g/re/p where "re" is some regular expression. "p" does indeed mean print, but the "g" is for global. This is one of Usenet's most frequently asked questions, or at least it was until "where can I get nude pictures of Cindy Crawford" came along. -- Richard -- Spam filter: to mail me from a .com/.net site, put my surname in the headers. "The Internet is really just a series of bottlenecks joined by high speed networks." - Sam Wilson
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1025cc,13252e8d26a579ad X-Google-Attributes: gid1025cc,public X-Google-Thread: 109765,13252e8d26a579ad X-Google-Attributes: gid109765,public X-Google-Thread: f88ac,13252e8d26a579ad X-Google-Attributes: gidf88ac,public From: richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) Subject: Re: Currant Bun Date: 2000/01/28 Message-ID: <86t90t$1dub$1@pc-news.cogsci.ed.ac.uk> X-Deja-AN: 578962550 References: <SqN7OKbYNzlPwX7cJ3TbbH98bz5a@4ax.com> <VA.00000865.003e0788@one> <eyh66webgjt.fsf@liddell.cstr.ed.ac.uk> <86t3fp$grt$1@quince.news.easynet.net> X-Complaints-To: usenet@cogsci.ed.ac.uk X-Trace: pc-news.cogsci.ed.ac.uk 949102429 47051 129.215.110.29 (28 Jan 2000 23:33:49 GMT) Organization: HCRC, University of Edinburgh NNTP-Posting-Date: 28 Jan 2000 23:33:49 GMT Newsgroups: uk.comp.os.win95,easynet.talk,ed.general