From: Paul Winalski <paul.winalski@gmail.com>
To: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org
Subject: [TUHS] grep
Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2018 11:07:51 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CABH=_VTRZyRJP_waz4vkMf_1vThrgHBxXG1LSK+faJ-Gog7OuQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
On 7/18/18, Doug McIlroy <doug@cs.dartmouth.edu> wrote:
>
> The famous exception is grep, which became a verb.
I think the similarity to "grab" and "grope" helped.
> "grep for" and "grep out".
"grep for" I'm familiar with. What does it mean to "grep out"?
-Paul W.
next reply other threads:[~2018-07-19 15:08 UTC|newest]
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2018-07-19 15:07 Paul Winalski [this message]
2018-07-19 15:39 ` George Michaelson
[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
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