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The History of Grep - jkl - 07-07-2018 Potentially interesting: Prof. Brian Kernighan talks about how grep came into existence. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTfOnGZUZDk RE: The History of Grep - movq - 07-07-2018 Interesting indeed. I always assumed that grep somehow "evolved" at a rather slow pace: I thought that people were using "g/re/p" in ed all the time, so they eventually felt the need to simplify that task and wrote grep. But no, of course, it just happened over night. :-)