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- ifconfig: eye eff config (not “iff-config”) - “#!”: hash bang (not “shub-ang”) - sh: shuh like le as in le monde (not “ess ayche”) - tcl: tickle One of th
by gorgoiler 6y ago
- ifconfig: eye eff config (not “iff-config”)
- “#!”: hash bang (not “shub-ang”)
- sh: shuh like le as in le monde (not “ess ayche”)
- tcl: tickle
One of the hardest for me though is on a different topic to pronunciation. What name would you give to a variable that keeps track of the current working directory? What name did bash use for this variable?
Answers (for me):
- pwd: is “print working directory”
- $PWD: is “pcurrent working directory”, the P is silent.
- fiddlerwoaroof 6y agoI think of pwd as “present working directory”, but I have no idea where I got this from. And, it’s always a shebang line :)
- kps 6y ago‘pwd’ comes from Multics, where it abbreviates ‘print_wdir’.
- ghayes 6y agoFor me, two of those would be `shebang` (#!) and `S H` (ess eich). It's nice to coalesce around pronunciations, but we should also accept that people will choose different dialects.
- likeclockwork 6y agoExactly! We all have accents, we don't even pronounce English words the same way as each other.
- Daneel_ 6y agoAgreed on hashbang. It's melifluous to say "hash bang bin bash" - ahhhh :)