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by rswail 191 days ago
There's a reason why the basic Unix file commands are ls, cp, mv, rm.

They're easy to type on a TTY.

grep is from the ed command "g/re/p" which is g (all lines, short for "1,$") /re/ regular expression to search for, "p" to print the lines.

It still works in vi.