Awatmath.1379
net.unix-wizards
utzoo!decvax!watmath!bstempleton
Tue Jan  5 22:02:12 1982
Re: Reply to: On
On the name of grep, as I thought, it was a condensation of
g/re/p (aka qed or ed) where p is for print instead of pattern.
'Regular expression pattern' is a bit redundant.

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