grep isn't what you think it means...

Ever wonder why your favorite UNIX command is called "grep"? And what the heck does it have to do with the Founding Fathers?

Join me as we discuss linguistics research, Bell Labs, the American Revolution, and how it all resulted in the linux tool we all depend upon!

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Timestamps

00:00 The Phone Call that Created grep

01:05 Linguistic fingerprinting

02:55 A Historical Mystery...

05:00 PDP-7 Limitations

07:40 Ken Thompson's Overnight Hack

10:27 Essential Tool or Unix Junk?

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Works Cited:

Unix: An Oral History (Princeton):

https://web.archive.org/web/20200803035038/https://www.princeton.edu/~hos/frs122/unixhist/finalhis.htm

The Federalist Papers (Library of Congress):

https://guides.loc.gov/federalist-papers/full-text

The History of grep (Rualthanzauva):

https://medium.com/@rualthanzauva/grep-was-a-private-command-of-mine-for-quite-a-while-before-i-made-it-public-ken-thompson-a40e24a5ef48