<story><title>How grep got its name</title><url>http://robots.thoughtbot.com/post/871533965/how-grep-got-its-name</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>judofyr</author><text>Wait, what? As a non-native speaker of English, I&apos;ve always assumed that &quot;grep&quot; is a normal English verb.</text></comment>
<story><title>How grep got its name</title><url>http://robots.thoughtbot.com/post/871533965/how-grep-got-its-name</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nuxi</author><text>From Early history of UNIX: &quot;When asked what that funny name meant, Ken said it was obvious. It stood for the editor command that it simulated, g/re/p (global regular expression print).&quot;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://massis.lcs.mit.edu/archives/history/early.history.of.unix&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://massis.lcs.mit.edu/archives/history/early.history.of....&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>