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Did anyone else think it was GNU-rep, presumably a reference to an older UNIX command?
by saalweachter 6y ago
Did anyone else think it was GNU-rep, presumably a reference to an older UNIX command?
- kstrauser 6y agoYep. When I was a little sysadminlet, I asked my mentor that exact question. He had a good laugh out of it.
- xxr 6y agoSame--up until now I "knew" that grep stood for "GNU regular expression parser." Always good to have a reminder to question all the other things we "know."
- cat199 6y ago> Always good to have a reminder to question all the other things we "know." See also the 'HISTORY' section in BSD manual pages, then check their GNU clones.