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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

    oggie@woof.groupO This user is from outside of this forum
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    @kamstrup
    And 'ed' if you want to end up hurling your computer out a window!

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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

      hakona@im.alstadheim.noH This user is from outside of this forum
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      @kamstrup All well and good.
      Now do MS-DOS "find" and "type" vs unix.
      Then twist into the EFI shell, ...

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      • lisyarus@mastodon.gamedev.placeL lisyarus@mastodon.gamedev.place

        @jmorahan @kamstrup Yep, that's why they call it mansplaining

        barubary@infosec.exchangeB This user is from outside of this forum
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        @lisyarus @jmorahan @kamstrup I'm just saying, there is a splain command and it has a man page.

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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

          sweetshark@social.tchncs.deS This user is from outside of this forum
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          @kamstrup
          And sl if you happen to urgently need a steam locomotive in your life!

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          • marco@mastodon.skup.inM marco@mastodon.skup.in

            @kamstrup Or 'mount' to mount a disk and 'umount' for umounting a disk

            woe2you@beige.partyW This user is from outside of this forum
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            @marco @kamstrup Keystrokes are expensive.

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            • tubemeister@mstdn.socialT This user is from outside of this forum
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              @eseilt @kamstrup awk-ward

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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

                happyborg@fosstodon.orgH This user is from outside of this forum
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                @kamstrup dd for delete data

                Maybe it was to encourage us to RTFM?

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                • kithrup@wandering.shopK kithrup@wandering.shop

                  @kamstrup Bah, I remember gres you know.

                  ipngnetworks@ublog.techI This user is from outside of this forum
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                  @kithrup @kamstrup I never used pine. Because pine is not elm (which I did use before mutt)

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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

                    js@mastodon.nlJ This user is from outside of this forum
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                    @kamstrup awk if need to get stuff from awkward data

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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

                      js@mastodon.nlJ This user is from outside of this forum
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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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                      • js@mastodon.nlJ This user is from outside of this forum
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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

                          js@mastodon.nlJ This user is from outside of this forum
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                          @kamstrup man if you need some mansplainin

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                          • loadhigh@bitbang.socialL This user is from outside of this forum
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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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                                • xabean@infosec.exchangeX This user is from outside of this forum
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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

                                        tomseppert@fosstodon.orgT This user is from outside of this forum
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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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