On 8/3/20 6:15 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
On Mon, 2020-08-03 at 02:18 -0700, ToddAndMargo via users wrote:
On 2020-08-02 23:39, Joe Zeff wrote:
On 08/03/2020 12:24 AM, ToddAndMargo via users wrote:
It never occurred to me for the longest time that
that was what it was an initialism for. I thought
is was some funny name like grep for the longest
time.
You mean Global Regular Expression search and Print?
Holy crap! Someone really wanted it to say GREP.
Early UNIX systems had Teletype terminals. They were slow and difficult
to type on. That's why so many of the basic commands are short. I still
remember smiling when the 6th Edition introduced 'cd' instead of
'chdir'. The original text editor 'ed' had one-letter commands and only
printed the result of an edit if you explicitly asked for it.
And it only printed a single '?' if you had an error in a command. "The
experienced user will usually understand what the error is." (You had to
type an 'h' to see the full error message.)
--
Bob Nichols "NOSPAM" is really part of my email address.
Do NOT delete it.
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