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So few of us use physical tapes these days, but the "tape archive" (tar) remains ubiquitous. Not entirely unserious: "awk" is a good name because it is three c
by i_am_proteus 10mo ago
So few of us use physical tapes these days, but the "tape archive" (tar) remains ubiquitous.
Not entirely unserious:
"awk" is a good name because it is three characters to type
"rg" is better than "grep" because it is two fewer characters type
- necovek 10mo agoI would if they weren't so outrageously expensive (tapes and tape drives ;))
- rswail 10mo agoThere's a reason why the basic Unix file commands are ls, cp, mv, rm. They're easy to type on a TTY. grep is from the ed command "g/re/p" which is g (all lines, short for "1,$") /re/ regular expression to search for, "p" to print the lines. It still works in vi.