Comments by "justgivemethetruth" (@justgivemethetruth) on "Where GREP Came From - Computerphile" video.

  1. For me, grep is very close in spelling and sound to GRAB ... which is what it does. It is also a verb - "I'm gonna grep for this pattern". Though I used it all the time I assumed the acronym was (G)lobal search for (RE) regular expression and (P)rint.
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