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minus-squareVal@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up3·edit-23 days agointeresting you used grep because it’s a command that has a very clear origin. in ed/vi the g command was used to run commands on some pattern. eg g/[regex pattern]/[command] the p command was used to print current line so to print any line that matched the string “grep” you would do: g/grep/p. when this was made into a seperate command it was called grep: g/re/p. using re to denote regex.
interesting you used grep because it’s a command that has a very clear origin.
in ed/vi the g command was used to run commands on some pattern. eg
g/[regex pattern]/[command]the p command was used to print current line so to print any line that matched the string “grep” you would do:
g/grep/p.when this was made into a seperate command it was called grep:
g/re/p. using re to denote regex.