Re: [a-z]grep

[Wouter Eerdekens <retuow@xs4all.be>]

On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 05:22:35PM -0500, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> I've never fully realized the extent to which 'grep' has become a
> household word amongst *nix users, until today I got an idea for another
> grep variant. To avoid a name conflict, I searched Google for agrep,
> bgrep, cgrep, ... etc..
> 
> To my horror, I found that *every* letter of the alphabet has been used!! 
> There is a variant of grep from agrep all the way to zgrep (and possibly
> more with a >1-char prefix). Some of these are actually DOS/win32 versions
> of grep. Reminds me of that UF comic about the evolution of human
> language, where it started with "uga", "ug" and ended up with "sed, awk,
> grep". :-P

You could use yagrep (yet another grep). Searching for yagrep on google
returns no hits at all...

Wouter
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