I love how the Unix commands have such intuitive naming.

[chrisp@cyberplace.social]

@stiiin @dsw @kamstrup POSIX compliant humour only, please, everyone.

[chrisp@cyberplace.social]

@kamstrup bash - for how you treat your keyboard.

[lightfighter@infosec.exchange]

@kamstrup Find has always frustrated me. I've found, locate(mlocate), to work much better for me.

[bricker@fosstodon.org]

@brouhaha @kamstrup
I grep OCR'd dead tree media frequently

[rnd@toot.cat]

@lallemandfabrice @kamstrup "grep" is not a word in english, it's actually an abbreviation of "g/re/p", a command in ed that (g)lobally looks for a (r)egular (e)xpression and (p)rints matching strings

but a lot of IT people actually use "grep" as a verb meaning "look through a file for mentions of a specific piece of text", like i might say "let me grep for this function", as in "let me look where this function's name is mentioned in the source code"

[hundertzwoelf@sueden.social]

@happyborg @kamstrup I know it as disk destroyer!

[crazyeddie@mastodon.social]

@Oggie @kamstrup If you manage to get that done with ed, I'm way impressed.

[dsw@mastodontech.de]

@edavies @kamstrup this is indeed correct and would not work without a corresponding alias.

As far I can see, there are several rumors for the missing n, like the one you mentioned. However, I did not find any evidence for the correct story behind.

[annehargreaves@ioc.exchange]

@cstross @angusm @jay @kamstrup a meganerd?

[cstross@wandering.shop]

@annehargreaves @angusm @jay @kamstrup How very dare you! Writing man pages used to be a well-paid career!