An interesting story telling about why the unix grep command is named that way can be found here.
In addition to author Ken Thompson, special guest star Alfred Aho is also mentioned for his works on egrep and fgrep.
An interesting story telling about why the unix grep command is named that way can be found here.
In addition to author Ken Thompson, special guest star Alfred Aho is also mentioned for his works on egrep and fgrep.