On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 11:08:52PM -0400, Toby Irvine wrote:
> I have one question for you.  I have been looking to find out what the 
> command/utility "grep" actually means or stands for.  I have searched the 
> net and keep finding the same answer, which I have been told is wrong.  
> Could you please help me out and let me know.  Someone told me that only an 
> old school unix person would be able to tell me.  Please help?

What is the wrong answer then?

Global Regular Expression Print (had to google for the Print :-)

See 
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=what+does+grep+stand+for%3F&btnG=Google+Search
 for more.

Edwin

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