I've never fully realized the extent to which 'grep' has become a household word amongst *nix users, until today I got an idea for another grep variant. To avoid a name conflict, I searched Google for agrep, bgrep, cgrep, ... etc..
To my horror, I found that *every* letter of the alphabet has been used!! There is a variant of grep from agrep all the way to zgrep (and possibly more with a >1-char prefix). Some of these are actually DOS/win32 versions of grep. Reminds me of that UF comic about the evolution of human language, where it started with "uga", "ug" and ended up with "sed, awk, grep". :-P Out of curiosity, I also searched for [a-z]awk, but it didn't seem as ubiquitous as grep. Now, if only Google had regex searching (googrep, anyone? :-P), I'd do a search on [a-z]+grep just to see what else turns up. T -- Lawyer: (n.) An innocence-vending machine, the effectiveness of which depends on how much money is inserted.
