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I love how the Unix commands have such intuitive naming.

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  • kamstrup@fosstodon.orgK kamstrup@fosstodon.org

    I love how the Unix commands have such intuitive naming. Like 'find' if you need to find a file, or 'grep' if you need to grep for a string

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    @kamstrup view to view a file, minus ew if you want to tidy it up a bit

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      @dwillanski @kamstrup … which chucks the fuzz. Nobrainer.

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      • kamstrup@fosstodon.orgK kamstrup@fosstodon.org

        I love how the Unix commands have such intuitive naming. Like 'find' if you need to find a file, or 'grep' if you need to grep for a string

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        @kamstrup man if you need some mansplainin

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          @nschultz @kamstrup cat is my goto tool for when a cat is about to walk on my keyboard, to soak up all the key presses

          That it can also be used to view a file is just feature bloat

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          • tomminieminen@mastodontti.fiT tomminieminen@mastodontti.fi

            @kamstrup On a totally unrelated matter, I love it that in Apple II, `cat` listed files, while in Un*x it echoes their contents.

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            @tomminieminen @kamstrup catalog vs catenate. The perils of abbreviation (not something UNIX is afraid of).

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            • cstross@wandering.shopC cstross@wandering.shop

              @annehargreaves @kamstrup Yes, but adduser and useradd came from different parallel universe dialects of unix, it's just that we live in a multiverse that supports crossovers and team-ups

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              @cstross @annehargreaves @kamstrup Oh yeah, like the good rename command and the bad rename command.

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                @jay @cstross @annehargreaves @kamstrup also man crontab v.s. man 5 crontab v.s. man 8 crontab "of COURSE 8 means programs and 5 means config"

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                • kamstrup@fosstodon.orgK kamstrup@fosstodon.org

                  I love how the Unix commands have such intuitive naming. Like 'find' if you need to find a file, or 'grep' if you need to grep for a string

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                  @kamstrup e-ll-ing a folders content

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                  • cstross@wandering.shopC cstross@wandering.shop

                    @annehargreaves @kamstrup Yes, but adduser and useradd came from different parallel universe dialects of unix, it's just that we live in a multiverse that supports crossovers and team-ups

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                    @cstross The masterpiece of that convergence is "ps", where options include both "f" and "-f", with different meanings

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                    • kamstrup@fosstodon.orgK kamstrup@fosstodon.org

                      I love how the Unix commands have such intuitive naming. Like 'find' if you need to find a file, or 'grep' if you need to grep for a string

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                      @kamstrup
                      Like people remember where they were on 9/11, I remember vividly my first "shutdown -h now" on some BSD variant I just installed some 25 years ago.

                      My first non Microsoft install. Felt like magic.

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                      • datn@xoxo.zoneD datn@xoxo.zone

                        @kamstrup so often I found myself wishing to print my regular expressions globally but lacked a pithy and intuitive command. then came --

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                        @datn @kamstrup
                        I did some research and learned that the double dash delimiter functions as an options terminator. The usage examples I found was e.g. deleting files starting with `-`:
                        `rm -- -r`

                        Could you show an example how the double dash delimiter can improve usage of regex?

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                        • kamstrup@fosstodon.orgK kamstrup@fosstodon.org

                          I love how the Unix commands have such intuitive naming. Like 'find' if you need to find a file, or 'grep' if you need to grep for a string

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                          @kamstrup or fsck when you need to fsck

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                            @jay @cstross @annehargreaves @kamstrup The best `man` pages are written to be so opaque that the only people who can understand the `man` page are people who don't need the `man` page because they know it all already.

                            Or possibly because they wrote the `man` page themselves.

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                              @licho @kamstrup I thought 'cat' was the command that led to the Internet being MADE OF CATS🤣

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                              • kamstrup@fosstodon.orgK kamstrup@fosstodon.org

                                I love how the Unix commands have such intuitive naming. Like 'find' if you need to find a file, or 'grep' if you need to grep for a string

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                                @kamstrup Let alone git and gimp.

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                                • cstross@wandering.shopC cstross@wandering.shop

                                  @annehargreaves @kamstrup Yes, but adduser and useradd came from different parallel universe dialects of unix, it's just that we live in a multiverse that supports crossovers and team-ups

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                                  @cstross @kamstrup Ah, OK. TIL

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