[comp.unix.questions] Re^2: Expansion of the acronym "grep"

maart@cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath) (06/10/89)

childers@avsd.UUCP (Richard Childers) writes:
\...	grep == Global Regular Expression Pattern
\...	fgrep == fast grep		optimized for fast pattern searches

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