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What is the origin of the name "grep"?
The original UNIX text editor "ed" has a construct g/re/p,
where "re" stands for a regular expression, to Globally
search for matches to the Regular Expression and Print the
lines containing them. This was so often used that it was
packaged up into its own command, thus named "grep". According
to Dennis Ritchie, this is the true origin of the command.
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