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The thing that struck me is that there are no one letter commands in UNIX (that I can remember off the top of my head). Not sure if there's any reason for this
by arakawa 14y ago
The thing that struck me is that there are no one letter commands in UNIX (that I can remember off the top of my head). Not sure if there's any reason for this besides namespace scarcity -- only 26 one-letter commands you can have!
It feels pretty arbitrary, I guess, to decide that Twitter is special enough that it gets to be one of the 26.
- technomancy 14y agoI like to think of it as reserving the 1-letter namespace for personal shell aliases. Everyone's going to have a different set of 26 most commonly-used commands.
- bodyfour 14y ago"w" is standard on most UNIX machines, At one time, "f" was a link to "finger" on many machines, but I think that's mostly died out now. And of course there's "X", although you usually don't run that yourself at the command line unless you're debugging something.
- deleted 14y ago[deleted]