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RE: https://fosstodon.org/@kamstrup/116509200609952389

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May 3 at 10:09amWeb
Show threadEric G.May 3
@nixCraft My TA's name was Ed, so I always knew which command to use to write my lab reports.
Show threadCavyherdMay 3

@nixCraft

I've taken a couple of stabs at learning Powershell & jesus fuck do they make it so hard.

A command that requires a single line in Unix winds up being a full f'ing paragraph, with terms & subterms &—like, really?

Show threadhnapelMay 3

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dd for copy a raw file because cc was already taken

Show threadFreevoltMay 3
@nixCraft Wasn't the word "grep" coined by the tool "grep"?
Show threadNico RehwaldtMay 3
@nixCraft Yes - and find can delete a part of your harddrive, too.
Show threadPhil HaighMay 3
@nixCraft I love how when I finally got my hands on Unix, two years into my degree, it was just so cool compared to the crappy Harris 400 OS we’d had to use until then. Not knowing that it had been around for the best part of 20 years already.