<![CDATA[I love how the Unix commands have such intuitive naming.]]>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

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/topic/0f6ec074-fdcf-4b6c-a984-bf457e847c37/i-love-how-the-unix-commands-have-such-intuitive-naming.RSS for NodeFri, 15 May 2026 02:45:47 GMTSun, 03 May 2026 06:21:55 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to I love how the Unix commands have such intuitive naming. on Sun, 03 May 2026 12:33:21 GMT]]>@cstross @kamstrup Ah, OK. TIL

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://ioc.exchange/users/annehargreaves/statuses/116510661124260997https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://ioc.exchange/users/annehargreaves/statuses/116510661124260997Sun, 03 May 2026 12:33:21 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I love how the Unix commands have such intuitive naming. on Sun, 03 May 2026 12:31:38 GMT]]>@kamstrup Let alone git and gimp.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://c.im/users/torf/statuses/116510654338878149https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://c.im/users/torf/statuses/116510654338878149Sun, 03 May 2026 12:31:38 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I love how the Unix commands have such intuitive naming. on Sun, 03 May 2026 12:26:28 GMT]]>@licho @kamstrup I thought 'cat' was the command that led to the Internet being MADE OF CATS🤣

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/sjcooke66/statuses/116510634067829823https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/sjcooke66/statuses/116510634067829823Sun, 03 May 2026 12:26:28 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I love how the Unix commands have such intuitive naming. on Sun, 03 May 2026 12:20:59 GMT]]>@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.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/angusm/statuses/116510612508287952https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/angusm/statuses/116510612508287952Sun, 03 May 2026 12:20:59 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I love how the Unix commands have such intuitive naming. on Sun, 03 May 2026 12:08:13 GMT]]>@kamstrup or fsck when you need to fsck

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/renardboy/statuses/116510562314835789https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/renardboy/statuses/116510562314835789Sun, 03 May 2026 12:08:13 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I love how the Unix commands have such intuitive naming. on Sun, 03 May 2026 12:04:47 GMT]]>@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?

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/elnecesario/statuses/116510548784688497https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/elnecesario/statuses/116510548784688497Sun, 03 May 2026 12:04:47 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I love how the Unix commands have such intuitive naming. on Sun, 03 May 2026 12:02:08 GMT]]>@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.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://fosstodon.org/users/TomSeppert/statuses/116510538393669519https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://fosstodon.org/users/TomSeppert/statuses/116510538393669519Sun, 03 May 2026 12:02:08 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I love how the Unix commands have such intuitive naming. on Sun, 03 May 2026 11:48:18 GMT]]>@cstross The masterpiece of that convergence is "ps", where options include both "f" and "-f", with different meanings

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://tech.lgbt/users/imsop/statuses/116510483967328561https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://tech.lgbt/users/imsop/statuses/116510483967328561Sun, 03 May 2026 11:48:18 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I love how the Unix commands have such intuitive naming. on Sun, 03 May 2026 11:45:52 GMT]]>@kamstrup e-ll-ing a folders content

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/TinySmall_/statuses/116510474416029075https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/TinySmall_/statuses/116510474416029075Sun, 03 May 2026 11:45:52 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I love how the Unix commands have such intuitive naming. on Sun, 03 May 2026 11:39:42 GMT]]>@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"

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/xabean/statuses/116510450132637451https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/xabean/statuses/116510450132637451Sun, 03 May 2026 11:39:42 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I love how the Unix commands have such intuitive naming. on Sun, 03 May 2026 11:37:40 GMT]]>@cstross @annehargreaves @kamstrup Oh yeah, like the good rename command and the bad rename command.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/barubary/statuses/116510442184813971https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/barubary/statuses/116510442184813971Sun, 03 May 2026 11:37:40 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I love how the Unix commands have such intuitive naming. on Sun, 03 May 2026 11:32:40 GMT]]>@tomminieminen @kamstrup catalog vs catenate. The perils of abbreviation (not something UNIX is afraid of).

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/__d/statuses/116510422491181503https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/__d/statuses/116510422491181503Sun, 03 May 2026 11:32:40 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I love how the Unix commands have such intuitive naming. on Sun, 03 May 2026 11:21:09 GMT]]>@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

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://bitbang.social/users/loadhigh/statuses/116510377221659363https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://bitbang.social/users/loadhigh/statuses/116510377221659363Sun, 03 May 2026 11:21:09 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I love how the Unix commands have such intuitive naming. on Sun, 03 May 2026 11:09:45 GMT]]>@kamstrup man if you need some mansplainin

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.nl/users/js/statuses/116510332413731438https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.nl/users/js/statuses/116510332413731438Sun, 03 May 2026 11:09:45 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I love how the Unix commands have such intuitive naming. on Sun, 03 May 2026 11:09:00 GMT]]>@dwillanski @kamstrup … which chucks the fuzz. Nobrainer.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.nl/users/js/statuses/116510329468080619https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.nl/users/js/statuses/116510329468080619Sun, 03 May 2026 11:09:00 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I love how the Unix commands have such intuitive naming. on Sun, 03 May 2026 11:07:29 GMT]]>@kamstrup view to view a file, minus ew if you want to tidy it up a bit

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.nl/users/js/statuses/116510323476319062https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.nl/users/js/statuses/116510323476319062Sun, 03 May 2026 11:07:29 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I love how the Unix commands have such intuitive naming. on Sun, 03 May 2026 11:05:35 GMT]]>@kamstrup awk if need to get stuff from awkward data

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.nl/users/js/statuses/116510316006449059https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.nl/users/js/statuses/116510316006449059Sun, 03 May 2026 11:05:35 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I love how the Unix commands have such intuitive naming. on Sun, 03 May 2026 11:03:07 GMT]]>@kithrup @kamstrup I never used pine. Because pine is not elm (which I did use before mutt)

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://ublog.tech/users/IPngNetworks/statuses/116510306325097148https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://ublog.tech/users/IPngNetworks/statuses/116510306325097148Sun, 03 May 2026 11:03:07 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I love how the Unix commands have such intuitive naming. on Sun, 03 May 2026 11:01:40 GMT]]>@kamstrup dd for delete data

Maybe it was to encourage us to RTFM?

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://fosstodon.org/users/happyborg/statuses/116510300608313947https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://fosstodon.org/users/happyborg/statuses/116510300608313947Sun, 03 May 2026 11:01:40 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I love how the Unix commands have such intuitive naming. on Sun, 03 May 2026 10:59:20 GMT]]>@eseilt @kamstrup awk-ward

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mstdn.social/users/Tubemeister/statuses/116510291436808887https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mstdn.social/users/Tubemeister/statuses/116510291436808887Sun, 03 May 2026 10:59:20 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I love how the Unix commands have such intuitive naming. on Sun, 03 May 2026 10:59:18 GMT]]>@marco @kamstrup Keystrokes are expensive.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://beige.party/users/woe2you/statuses/116510291312513687https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://beige.party/users/woe2you/statuses/116510291312513687Sun, 03 May 2026 10:59:18 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I love how the Unix commands have such intuitive naming. on Sun, 03 May 2026 10:56:30 GMT]]>@kamstrup
And sl if you happen to urgently need a steam locomotive in your life!

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.tchncs.de/ap/users/116082355106939231/statuses/116510280260758453https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.tchncs.de/ap/users/116082355106939231/statuses/116510280260758453Sun, 03 May 2026 10:56:30 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I love how the Unix commands have such intuitive naming. on Sun, 03 May 2026 10:54:58 GMT]]>@lisyarus @jmorahan @kamstrup I'm just saying, there is a splain command and it has a man page.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/barubary/statuses/116510274227125308https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/barubary/statuses/116510274227125308Sun, 03 May 2026 10:54:58 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I love how the Unix commands have such intuitive naming. on Sun, 03 May 2026 10:53:50 GMT]]>@kamstrup All well and good.
Now do MS-DOS "find" and "type" vs unix.
Then twist into the EFI shell, ...

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://im.alstadheim.no/users/hakona/statuses/116510269771791711https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://im.alstadheim.no/users/hakona/statuses/116510269771791711Sun, 03 May 2026 10:53:50 GMT