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There goes my theory about grep, awk, sed being named after digestive noises. What's interesting is the history of dd and its completely non-UNIX like argument
by strlen 16y ago
There goes my theory about grep, awk, sed being named after digestive noises.
What's interesting is the history of dd and its completely non-UNIX like argument format e.g., if=/dev/null of=./foo bs=4k: the latter was designed as a prank mocking IBM's mainframe OSes (today's equivalent would be making a FactoryFactory in Python, I'd imagine)
- epochwolf 16y agogrep = Global Regular Expression Print awk = Administrator's Wisdom Kit sed = Stream EDitor.
- SwellJoe 16y ago66% correct: awk = Aho, Weinberger, Kernighan
- Groxx 16y agoA much more amusing theory than reality. "perl" could fit in that category too...
- caf 16y agoSadly, having had to wrestle with a surly TSM installation, I can report that IBM tools still use this argument style.