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Re:A Perfectly Cromulent Word (2016) by riffraff on Friday September 24, 2021 @01:00PM (#28645034)
"Grok" is quite commonly used verb which comes from a made up concept in Heinlein's "Stranger in a Strange land".
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Re:A Perfectly Cromulent Word (2016) by lsaferite on Friday September 24, 2021 @01:54PM (#28645705)
Grok is certainly a standard part of my lexicon.
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Re:A Perfectly Cromulent Word (2016) by m463 on Friday September 24, 2021 @02:10PM (#28645899)
what about grep?
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Re:A Perfectly Cromulent Word (2016) by gnubison on Saturday September 25, 2021 @12:14PM (#28654244)
Comes from the ed command ‘g/re/p’ (g: for each line matching; re: regular expression; p: print)
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Re:A Perfectly Cromulent Word (2016) by jjtheblunt on Friday September 24, 2021 @07:06PM (#28648783)
generalized regular expression processor ?
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