UNIX commands acronym
- adb
- a dreadful bug
another damn bug
antedilluvian bug eater
- c++
- cannot add
- cat
- compose a tune
- cc
- change channels
- cd
- can't define
- cpio
- corrupt process in operation
- cron
- can run only nightly
- csh
- complete sh
crash system and halt
crash system hardware
can't and shan't help
- date
- display a time estimate
- df
- disk full
- dump
- destroy user's modified programs
don't use my programs
- ed
- eject disk
- grep
- get ready to eat the processor
greates request ever produced
gurus recovery expert program
- lp
- lose printout
- lpr
- lose printout repeatedly
- lpr -m
- mail me that you've lost printout repetedly
- ls
- last supper
let's sex
less sex
let's see
long story
- ls -l
- lots of silly lines
- mail
- make an infinite loop
- man
- many ambitious notes
minimum assistance to novices
male aid needed
- nroff
- nearly random output file formatter
- od
- obscures data
oh, dear
- passwd
- pick a seven symbol word, dummy
- ps
- print suspects
- rm
- read manual
realise mistake
- rm -i
- realise mistake (after impatient response)
- rm -r
- read manual -religiously
- rmdir
- randomly modify directories in root
- sh
- sans historie
system halt
- sort
- shift, organise, rotate - truncate
- su
- suspend user
- sync
- sorry your network crashed
- time
- totally inaccurate measure of execution
- vi
- very insensitive
violate intuition
virtually impossible
virtually incompehensible
virtually intelligible
virtually inept
- wait
- wow! another idiot time consumer