Re: man-o-man these man pages

[Bob McClure Jr <robertmcclure earthlink net>]

On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 04:53:52PM -0600, Thomas Dodd wrote:
> 
> Abou half make sense: df = DiskFree, cp = CoPy, mv = MoVe,
>  ls -la = LiSt Long-format All-files.
> 
> others not a clue: awk, grep, sed=StreamEDitor but what's that

awk: the initials of the authors of the language, Aho, Weinberger, and
Kernighan (yes, Brian K. of "K&R", the definers of C).

grep: Get Regular Expression and Print (I think).

> But 'ls' makes as much sense as 'dir' :)
> 
> 	-Thomas

There's also du = disk usage, less (less is better than "more", or
"pg" (pager), for that matter), vi = VIsual editor <cough>, emacs =
Editor MACroS (thermo-nuclear word processor and development
environment), tar = Tape ARchiver, ln = LiNk.

Cheers,
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