From: William Cheswick <ches@cheswick.com>
Cc: The Unix Heritage Society <tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
Subject: [TUHS] grep
Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2018 12:13:08 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <C6FF8F3D-2B0A-4E4A-A891-A36B04E3B250@cheswick.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAC0cEp-XYOWdq_+dxTfbbeqYX-6CHnUpsxAjHF=Fd-jcNynAyA@mail.gmail.com>
Marion Harris gave a talk at 1985 Portland (Fireworks and Salmon) Usenix about the unapologetic use of such verbs.
Grep uses the “gr” as in grasp, grope, grab, etc, similar to the “sl” in slither, slider, sleek, etc. She gave a linguistic term for such things, and I remember a word like “sythesim”, but that’s not it.
ches
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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 ` William Cheswick [this message]
2018-07-18 16:25 ` [TUHS] grep Kurt H Maier
2018-07-18 17:13 ` George Michaelson
2018-07-18 17:35 ` Bakul Shah
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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