[TUHS] grep

Paul Winalski paul.winalski at gmail.com
Fri Jul 20 01:07:51 AEST 2018


On 7/18/18, Doug McIlroy <doug at cs.dartmouth.edu> wrote:
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> 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.



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