From: "John M. Aldrich" <fighteer AT cs DOT com>
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Subject: Re: GREP
Date: Mon, 14 Oct 1996 20:12:55 -0700
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Caltoi wrote:
> 
> I'm a self taught tinkerer in programming and I keep seeing a program
> called grep. What is it and what does it do??

Grep = Global Regular Expression Print

It's a text search utility like DOS's 'find', but far more powerful. 
For example:

% grep "\<__dpmi.*(.*)" .../*.c

finds all references to functions that start with the string "__dpmi" in
all .c files in the current directory and all its subdirectories.  Try
that with DOS find.  :)

-- 
John M. Aldrich <fighteer AT cs DOT com>                      

* Anything that happens, happens.
* Anything that, in happening, causes something else to happen,
  causes something else to happen.
* Anything that, in happening, causes itself to happen again, happens
  again.
* It doesn't necessarily do it in chronological order, though.
 
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