From: mah@mhorton.net (Mary Ann Horton)
Subject: [TUHS] Short history of 'grep'
Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2016 11:10:47 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <56AD0AB7.40701@mhorton.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160130030012.GB9762@minnie.tuhs.org>
A great read. Thanks!
I'm wondering if anyone can confirm the (possibly apocryphal) grep story
about the meeting at Bell Labs and the person who was late because she
couldn't find her keys? Maybe put some names to the characters?
(I can tell the story as I heard it, but I suspect we've all heard it
before.)
Thanks,
Mary Ann
On 01/29/2016 07:00 PM, Warren Toomey wrote:
> Norman put this link up on twitter:
> https://medium.com/@rualthanzauva/grep-was-a-private-command-of-mine-for-quite-a-while-before-i-made-it-public-ken-thompson-a40e24a5ef48#.t94fs3pgx
>
> All good, except I'm not sure I would have written "One guy McIlroy claimed
> grep was invented for him." :-)
>
> Cheers, Warren (a lesser guy)
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-01-30 19:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-01-30 3:00 Warren Toomey
2016-01-30 19:10 ` Mary Ann Horton [this message]
2016-01-30 19:44 ` Dave Horsfall
2016-01-30 20:20 ` Mary Ann Horton
2016-01-30 20:40 ` Dave Horsfall
2016-01-30 21:42 ` Marc Rochkind
2016-01-31 1:41 ` Dave Horsfall
2016-01-31 1:50 ` Larry McVoy
2016-01-31 2:06 ` jason-tuhs
2016-01-31 4:20 ` Random832
2016-01-31 17:11 ` Mary Ann Horton
2016-01-31 17:38 ` John Cowan
2016-02-01 10:48 ` Tony Finch
2016-01-31 2:37 ` John Cowan
2016-02-01 10:38 ` Tony Finch
2016-02-01 19:26 ` scj
2016-01-31 17:01 Doug McIlroy
2016-03-05 1:48 ` Dave Horsfall
2016-03-05 1:54 ` Larry McVoy
2016-02-01 20:57 Doug McIlroy
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