From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To: "John P. Linderman" <jpl.jpl@gmail.com>
Cc: The Unix Heritage Society <tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
Subject: [TUHS] Grep (was: TUHS Digest, Vol 32, Issue 12)
Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2018 12:50:29 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180719025029.GC54853@eureka.lemis.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAC0cEp-XYOWdq_+dxTfbbeqYX-6CHnUpsxAjHF=Fd-jcNynAyA@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wednesday, 18 July 2018 at 9:47:44 -0400, John P. Linderman wrote:
> "Grep" as a verb expanded beyond files. I recall a friend saying they were
> "grepping for their keys on the dresser".
It's interesting to note that the Oxford English Dictionary has
included grep`both as a noun and as a verb in 2003. From the noun:
Etymology: < grep, a string of characters used as a command in the
Unix operating system < the initial letters of global(ly)
search regular expression print.
The string g/re/p (where re stands for the regular
expression searched for) was earlier used in a Unix text
editor as the syntax for a sequence of commands
performing the same operation as grep.
Here your usage:
2. trans. slang (usually humorous). Of a person: to search; to scan visually.
1984 The Doctor's New Clothes in net.tv.drwho (Usenet newsgroup) 16
Aug. Peter Davison happened across his clothes while grepping
the TARDIS for the Zero Room.
Greg
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[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
2018-07-19 2:50 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey [this message]
2018-07-18 14:41 ` [TUHS] TUHS Digest, Vol 32, Issue 12 arnold
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