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Sloth sounds like if you tried to pronounce lsof.

• martin_a 8y ago
  No, not really. S comes after L when pronouncing, no matter how you do it.
  • jsilence 8y ago
    No hsit heshlock!
• rileymat2 8y ago
  My comment was too negative. Looks very useful. I just have trouble remembering names like this. I don't think this is a name/sound that clicks for me.
  • agumonkey 8y ago
    I get the feeling too. I was just wondering about that this morning. Some times you want a name that is clearly descriptive like lock_and_clean_journal but when you have a new tool that does a lot and in a different way.. a cute name is a good symbol to indicate 'completely new context'. Otherwise we'd get meaningless glue code like pony | lulee --pew | eels | cyan ..
    • masklinn 8y ago
      > Otherwise we'd get meaningless glue code like > pony | lulee --pew | eels | cyan .. I mean we kinda do, it's just that we're used to the bits. ls | xargs cat | grep main >> /dev/nul 2>&1 is not inherently more meaningful than what you wrote above, you just have the experience to interpret it. Incidentally, powershell commands tend to be more "self-explanatory" in their naming, at least in theory.
      • agumonkey 8y ago
        heh, not untrue, although most are bad shortenings.. ls:list, xargs:arguments, cat:concatenate MS did try to avoid explosion of idioms but at a tiny verbosity cost. I believe that map/reduce is a bit a good middle ground