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The Nerdy Sixty | (20/60) Why is it called grep? | Challenge

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The Nerdy Sixty

The Unix tool name “grep” is odd. What is the origin of the name “grep”?

Hint 1

It’s named after an old Unix editor command that searched globally for a regex and printed matches.

Hint 2

Think of the command in ed: g//p.

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