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From an idiomatic command sequence in the qed and ed text editors: ‘g/re/p’, meaning: globally search for a regular expression and print, The manual action 'grepping' is often used to denote searching for and returning i…

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  1. From an idiomatic command sequence in the qed and ed text editors: ‘g/re/p’, meaning: globally search for a regular expression and print, The manual action 'grepping' is often used to denote searching for and returning information to another person. > After manually grepping the code, I can can conclude that you broke it on line 42