Messages in this thread |  | | From | Wayne.Brown@altec ... | Date | Fri, 11 May 2001 13:37:53 -0500 | Subject | Re: Not a typewriter |
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On 05/11/2001 at 12:03:43 PM Joel Jaeggli <joelja@darkwing.uoregon.edu> wrote:
>it's not clear to me that that textsearch is a more accurate description >than Get Regular ExPression
It's not more accurate. But Hacksaw's original point was that a new user would not know what "not a typewriter" meant. My point was that a newbie wouldn't be likely to guess that "grep" means "search for text" either; in both cases he'd have to look it up if he'd never seen it before.
BTW, grep does not stand for "Get Regular ExPression." It comes from an often-used command in the ed (and ex and vi) editor: g/re/p. The "g" means "global," the "re" is a regular expression, and the "p" means "print." So to search for all lines containing the word "foo" in a file you were editing, you would type g/foo/p. This was such a useful function that it was packaged in a standalone program that could be used to search multiple files.
Wayne
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