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In Unix, what do some obscurely named commands stand for?
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Posted on 05/29/2015 6:07:16 AM PDT by CharlesOConnell
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I thought GREP was scandanavian, like from Jim Cavezel in Outlander.
To: CharlesOConnell
So UNIX was written by A ho?..........................
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05/29/2015 6:11:52 AM PDT
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Red Badger
(Man builds a ship in a bottle. God builds a universe in the palm of His hand.............)
To: CharlesOConnell
Abort Retry Fail was named for the sound Bill Gates dog made.
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05/29/2015 6:14:18 AM PDT
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bigbob
(The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln)
To: CharlesOConnell
Another is dumho. It writes Hillary 10,000 times to stderr.
To: CharlesOConnell
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05/29/2015 6:20:51 AM PDT
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broken_arrow1
(I regret that I have but one life to give for my country - Nathan Hale "Patriot")
To: CharlesOConnell
In unix a good parent, before they die, kills off all their children before they become zombies.
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05/29/2015 6:25:20 AM PDT
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central_va
(I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
To: Red Badger
I thought it was written by a bunch of castrated guys...
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05/29/2015 6:29:10 AM PDT
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BitWielder1
(I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
To: CharlesOConnell
UNIX was reversed engineered from the operating system of the computer on the UFO that crashed an Roswell ... hence the weird command names
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05/29/2015 7:08:29 AM PDT
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tophat9000
(An Eye for an Eye, a Word for a Word...nothing more)
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05/29/2015 7:09:28 AM PDT
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ShadowAce
(Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
To: CharlesOConnell
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posted on
05/29/2015 7:12:23 AM PDT
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tacticalogic
("Oh, bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
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posted on
05/29/2015 7:54:24 AM PDT
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day10
(You'll get nothing and like it!)
To: CharlesOConnell
I’ve often thought the folks who originally developed Unix were Jewish, or just had a major phobia of vowels.
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posted on
05/29/2015 8:21:03 AM PDT
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zeugma
(Are there more nearby spiders than the sun is big?)
To: central_va
In unix a good parent, before they die, kills off all their children before they become zombies. Yes, but if you want, a parent can disown it's childen and they'll be orphans, but still alive.
Many years ago, when I was relatively new to unix, I was taking a class on Ultrix (Digital's version of Unix at the time). We were talking about the way timekeeping amongst machines was managed. (prior to 'ntp' being developed).
Here's how it was described in the man page....
One server is designated a master. The master is authoritative for time. Slaves will query the master for the time on a periodic basis and thus keep themselves in sync. If the master dies, or is otherwise unavailable, the slaves will hold an election amongst themselves and elect a new master. This new master will continue as authoritative until the designated master returns. If the new master dies, a new election is held.
I always thought that was an interesting way of describing it. Seemed to work pretty well.
That was an advanced administrator class. We all had our own unix workstations we were working from, with the 'teacher' having the master. server. At the beginning of the class he let us know that he fully expected someone to be able to hack into the server eventually, but he'd appreciated it if we didn't destroy it until the end of the class. After the class, all servers were restored to a 'known good' state so it didn't really matter what we did during the class.
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05/29/2015 8:31:40 AM PDT
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zeugma
(Are there more nearby spiders than the sun is big?)
To: central_va
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05/29/2015 8:43:17 AM PDT
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NormsRevenge
(SEMPER FI!! - Monthly Donors Rock!!)
To: CharlesOConnell
fsck - yes, it resembles the naughty word you think it does. There is a very good reason it hasn’t been changed.
To: CharlesOConnell
It’s called “Job Security”.
See also the C language.
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posted on
05/29/2015 9:14:49 AM PDT
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Kommodor
(Terrorist, Journalist or Democrat? I can't tell the difference.)
To: CharlesOConnell
I always thought ‘grep’ stood for “GRab Everything Pertinent”.
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posted on
05/29/2015 10:45:12 AM PDT
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Bloody Sam Roberts
("It is never untimely to yank the rope of freedom's bell." - - Frank Capra)
To: CharlesOConnell
PERL = Pathologically Eclectic Rubbish Lister
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posted on
05/29/2015 11:26:11 AM PDT
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glorgau
To: tacticalogic
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chown -R us ./base LOL! post-o'-the-day!
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05/29/2015 2:23:08 PM PDT
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dayglored
(Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is...sounding pretty good about now.)
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