in reply to question for perl book & magazine authors
While we are talking about grep, does anyone know why grep is called grep? I would have thought filter would be a more appropriate name? Anyone know the "etymology" of the word grep?
-Andrew.
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Re^2: question for perl book & magazine authors
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Re^2: question for perl book & magazine authors
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