I love how the Unix commands have such intuitive naming.
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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
@kamstrup Those are only two examples. but there is sudo, ls, touch, cat and more obscure names like that.
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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
@kamstrup
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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
@kamstrup All well and good.
Now do MS-DOS "find" and "type" vs unix.
Then twist into the EFI shell, ... -
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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
@kamstrup
And sl if you happen to urgently need a steam locomotive in your life! -
@kamstrup Or 'mount' to mount a disk and 'umount' for umounting a disk
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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
@kamstrup dd for delete data
Maybe it was to encourage us to RTFM?
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@kamstrup Bah, I remember gres you know.
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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
@kamstrup awk if need to get stuff from awkward data
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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
@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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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
@kamstrup man if you need some mansplainin
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@kamstrup On a totally unrelated matter, I love it that in Apple II, `cat` listed files, while in Un*x it echoes their contents.
@tomminieminen @kamstrup catalog vs catenate. The perils of abbreviation (not something UNIX is afraid of).
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@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
@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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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
@kamstrup e-ll-ing a folders content
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@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
@cstross The masterpiece of that convergence is "ps", where options include both "f" and "-f", with different meanings
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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
@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.
