Post #1949824
2026-05-03 08:52 UTC
@kamstrup
Actually, you can also use them to tell a short story like:
unzip | strip | touch | finger | grep | mount | fsck | unmount | sleep
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@stiiin@infosec.space 2026-05-03 08:55
@dsw @kamstrup Even if this equivalent of locker room humour were funny, half of those commands aren't even in POSIX.
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@edavies@functional.cafe 2026-05-03 12:49
@dsw@mastodontech.de Except it's “umount” because the mental energy required to remember to leave out the “n” is less than the physical energy required to press just press the damn key, especially on an ASR33. /s (Actually, last time I made a comment about this I was told that the reason was that very very early Unixes limited command lengths to 6 characters. There are two interpretations of the word “backward” in the phrase “backward compatibility”.) @kamstrup@fosstodon.org