Patrick Nelson wrote: > Ryan Dooley wrote: >> Tsuyoshi Takada wrote: >> >>> Hi, all >>> >>> I don't know well about the following UNIX terms. >>> Would you teach me about them? >>> >>> "contrib" ... I often see this word in ftp site. >>> >>> grep(1) ... What does the number (1) mean? >>> >>> regards, >>> >>> >>> >> I think "contrib" has it's roots in BSD - meaning contritubted >> software for the BSD project. I've seen a lot of older SunOS >> machines and BSD machines with /usr/contrib (instead of /usr/local). >> >> The (1) or (n) after a command is the section of the manual pages >> that the actual man page can be found it. >> >> For instance if you have grep(1) and grep(3) on your system, if you >> want the manual page for the user command, type "man 1 grep". If you >> want the library call manual page for grep, type "man 3 grep". >> > > GREP->General Regular Expression Print
Oops I mean Global Regular Expression Print. For even more info... Read on! GREP came from the first re's in a UNIX editor named ed. The way you did the re in ed was like: g/<Regular Expression>/p which was read Global Regular Expression Print. It was here were re got widespread use and because it was such a particularly useful function it was made its own utility (which egrep -- extended grep -- was later modeled). -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
