From: mah@mhorton.net (Mary Ann Horton)
Subject: [TUHS] Short history of 'grep'
Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2016 12:20:56 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <56AD1B28.4010908@mhorton.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.11.1601310639150.14724@aneurin.horsfall.org>
OK, for those who haven't heard it before...
There was a meeting at Bell Labs. One women came in late, all out of
breath. She apologized: "I'm so sorry I'm late, but I was grepping my
apartment for my keys."
One of the senior UNIX guys in the meeting responded dryly: "You should
have used egrep, it's faster."
On 01/30/2016 11:44 AM, Dave Horsfall wrote:
> On Sat, 30 Jan 2016, Mary Ann Horton wrote:
>
>> 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.)
> Please do; I haven't heard it, so others may not have...
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-01-30 20:20 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
2016-01-30 19:44 ` Dave Horsfall
2016-01-30 20:20 ` Mary Ann Horton [this message]
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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