I love how the Unix commands have such intuitive naming.

[__d@mastodon.social]

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

[barubary@infosec.exchange]

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

[xabean@infosec.exchange]

@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"

[tinysmall_@mastodon.social]

@kamstrup e-ll-ing a folders content

[imsop@tech.lgbt]

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

[tomseppert@fosstodon.org]

@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.

[elnecesario@mastodon.social]

@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?

[renardboy@mastodon.social]

@kamstrup or fsck when you need to fsck

[angusm@mastodon.social]

@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.

[sjcooke66@mastodon.social]

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

[torf@c.im]

@kamstrup Let alone git and gimp.

[annehargreaves@ioc.exchange]

@cstross @kamstrup Ah, OK. TIL