What does grep stand for?

[Jerry Feldman]

On Mon, 2 Jun 2003 21:53:17 -0400
"irv englander" <vze2tyxu at verizon.net> wrote:

> grep= generalized r.e. processor
This has been answered correctly earlier:
It stands for "global regular expression print". It was once part of the
old ed editor (and also part of ex (eg. vi)). 

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