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I can't believe I'd never thought to look up what grep stood for, or if I had it had failed totally to make an impression on me. But it doesn't even make any o
by wizofaus 4y ago
I can't believe I'd never thought to look up what grep stood for, or if I had it had failed totally to make an impression on me. But it doesn't even make any obvious sense - "global regular expression print"??
OTOH "git" doesn't stand for anything. "Cat" is rarely used to concatenate, "awk" you'd never guess unless you looked it up, "perl"'s status as an acronym is purely apocryphal etc. etc.