It doesn't matter as long as you remember it. Same goes for less. What does tar mean, or zip, gzip, unzip, rsync, scp. Do you care? tar is now a verb and a nou

It doesn't matter as long as you remember it. Same goes for less. What does tar mean, or zip, gzip, unzip, rsync, scp. Do you care? tar is now a verb and a noun in its own right. If you know what it is and what it does, you know what it means. When you type pwd you mean please do what pwd does. npm nailed it, npm just means npm.