Re: DAK Commands for Bikesheds
On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 06:52:41PM +0200, Jakub Wilk wrote:
> * Robert Edmonds <edmonds@debian.org>, 2015-09-17, 15:04:
> >Wookey wrote:
> [...]
> >>Bikeshed is an appropriate name, in the unix tradition of mildly
> >>amusing/punny names.
> >
> >Which tradition would that be?
> >
> >Out of the few hundred or so Unix [0] and GNU [1] commands listed on
> >Wikipedia, the only vaguely amusing/punning names I can find are tac
> >("cat" backwards) and pinky (a lightweight "finger").
>
> "UNIX", "head", "tail", "kill", "nice", "finger", "bash", "less" are
> slightly humorous.
ITYM
unzip ; strip ; touch ; grep ; finger ; mount ; fsck ; more ; yes ; umount ; sleep
(yes, slightly inappropriate, but then again, maybe not)
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