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
Or for more complex example…
cat something | wc
if you want to wc something what cat sent through the pipe. -
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 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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@kamstrup On a totally unrelated matter, I love it that in Apple II, `cat` listed files, while in Un*x it echoes their contents.
@kamstrup I mean… Cats, right? Causing havoc everywhere they go!
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@kamstrup
Actually, you can also use them to tell a short story like:
unzip | strip | touch | finger | grep | mount | fsck | unmount | sleep -
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 Ed is the standard text editor.
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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@fosstodon.org g/re(gex)/p
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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 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 Or shred to shred datas.
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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 'paste', if you want to paste a file .
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@kamstrup sudo make me a sandwich (why didn't they call it 'please?'
@khleedril @kamstrup super user do, or do as
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@kamstrup sudo make me a sandwich (why didn't they call it 'please?'
@khleedril @kamstrup
$ alias please="sudo"Go on, you know you want to.
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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 In Swedish, “grep” is a garden fork, used to dig into soil. One could see some connection there. https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grep
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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 Biggest issue in the UNIX
design is to find the approprate icon for grep. -
@kamstrup sudo make me a sandwich (why didn't they call it 'please?'
@khleedril @kamstrup I just made an alias for sudo
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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 Or 'mount' to mount a disk and 'umount' for umounting a disk
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@kamstrup or there are 2 where the name mirrors each-other like adduser useradd just for lols
@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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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
And 'ed' if you want to end up hurling your computer out a window! -
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, ...
