From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: mah@mhorton.net (Mary Ann Horton) Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2016 12:20:56 -0800 Subject: [TUHS] Short history of 'grep' In-Reply-To: References: <20160130030012.GB9762@minnie.tuhs.org> <56AD0AB7.40701@mhorton.net> Message-ID: <56AD1B28.4010908@mhorton.net> 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... >