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I actually love grep. I'm not sure why, but it's taken such a hold in my brain that I intuitively associate searching for something specific with the word "grep

I actually love grep. I'm not sure why, but it's taken such a hold in my brain that I intuitively associate searching for something specific with the word "grep." I agree with man. It makes sense technically because of "manual"...except that "man" is its own word. Every time I type man, I feel like I'm typing the gender, and it's weird. cp bothers me because they shortened a four-letter word, the same with ls and list. Despite the original terminal constraints, they couldn't spare two characters?

dragonwriter 13y ago
> cp bothers me because they shortened a four-letter word, the same with ls and list. Despite the original terminal constraints, they couldn't spare two characters? Really, I think that with an OS designed in the late 1960s, brutally reducing commonly-used commands to the shortest recognizable form was a very good idea. Storage capacity (both RAM and persistent), processor speeds, and bandwidth for internal and network transfers were all many orders of magnitude less than today's systems. Extra bytes had a real cost.