From: George Michaelson <ggm@algebras.org>
To: Paul Winalski <paul.winalski@gmail.com>
Cc: TUHS main list <tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] grep
Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2018 11:39:24 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAKr6gn2zO88sRs5SOFxTyZ_VmrzFdXEOkDrcGHD0OKBLpfEh1A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CABH=_VTRZyRJP_waz4vkMf_1vThrgHBxXG1LSK+faJ-Gog7OuQ@mail.gmail.com>
grep -v
On Thu, Jul 19, 2018 at 11:07 AM, Paul Winalski <paul.winalski@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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 prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-07-19 15:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-07-19 15:07 Paul Winalski
2018-07-19 15:39 ` George Michaelson [this message]
[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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