From: Bakul Shah <bakul@bitblocks.com>
To: George Michaelson <ggm@algebras.org>
Cc: The Unix Heritage Society <tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] grep
Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2018 10:35:56 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180718173603.CBD53156E408@mail.bitblocks.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 18 Jul 2018 13:13:52 -0400." <CAKr6gn3sgk-M0EYobMyLYGjmUSadUUj0F_XMwFK1+VNDZhAsOg@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, 18 Jul 2018 13:13:52 -0400 George Michaelson <ggm@algebras.org> wrote:
George Michaelson writes:
> I was always told g/re/p as in g(lobally) apply r(egular) e(xpression)
> and p(rint) was a backronym which reflected the regex commonalities of
> sed/awk/grep/ed/ex/vi (ok, the latter two of course eggregiously
> offend because its Bill Joy exoticism, but I think by now we can
> accept some of the pauline epistles have later authors and are still
> held to be useful...
Here Brian Kernighan tells the story of how grep came about.
I love how he ends the story!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTfOnGZUZDk
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-07-18 17:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <mailman.3.1531879201.24006.tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
2018-07-18 11:39 ` [TUHS] TUHS Digest, Vol 32, Issue 12 Doug McIlroy
2018-07-18 13:47 ` John P. Linderman
2018-07-18 16:13 ` [TUHS] grep William Cheswick
2018-07-18 16:25 ` Kurt H Maier
2018-07-18 17:13 ` George Michaelson
2018-07-18 17:35 ` Bakul Shah [this message]
2018-07-19 2:50 ` [TUHS] Grep (was: TUHS Digest, Vol 32, Issue 12) Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2018-07-18 14:41 ` [TUHS] TUHS Digest, Vol 32, Issue 12 arnold
2018-07-19 15:07 [TUHS] grep Paul Winalski
2018-07-19 15:39 ` George Michaelson
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