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Keith Thompson wrote:
> 
> The original Unix text editor (or at least one of the earliest ones)
> was "ed", a line-oriented editor.  In ed, the way to print all the
> lines in the current buffer (file) matching a specified pattern is
> 
> g/RE/p
> 
> where "RE" is a regular expression.  Somebody has the bright idea of
> extracting this functionality into a separate program.

I had heard that grep came from General Regular Expression Pattern matcher, or 
something like that.

-- 
Jeff Carter
"You couldn't catch clap in a brothel, silly English K...niggets."
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