Path: athena.cs.uga.edu!emory!swrinde!mips!mips!decwrl!looking!funny-request From: hagerman@rx7.ece.cmu.edu (John Hagerman) Newsgroups: rec.humor.funny Subject: The ABCs of Unix Keywords: chuckle, computer Message-ID: [S448.72a2@looking.on.ca] Date: 17 Aug 92 08:30:03 GMT Lines: 50 Approved: funny@clarinet.com Duane Bailey and Al Hough wrote this a few years ago; I have made a few changes. Watch out for trademarks, etc. The ABCs of Unix ---------------- A is for Awk, which runs like a snail, and B is for Biff, which reads all your mail. C is for CC, as hackers recall, while D is for DD, the command that does all. E is for Emacs, which rebinds your keys, and F is for Fsck, which rebuilds your trees. G is for Grep, a clever detective, while H is for Halt, which may seem defective. I is for Indent, which rarely amuses, and J is for Join, which nobody uses. K is for Kill, which makes you the boss, while L is for Lex, which is missing from DOS. M is for More, from which Less was begot, and N is for Nice, which it really is not. O is for Od, which prints out things nice, while P is for Passwd, which reads in strings twice. Q is for Quota, a Berkeley-type fable, and R is for Ranlib, for sorting ar [sic] table. S is for Spell, which attempts to belittle, while T is for True, which does very little. U is for Uniq, which is used after Sort, and V is for Vi, which is hard to abort. W is for Whoami, which tells you your name, while X is, well, X, of dubious fame. Y is for Yes, which makes an impression, and Z is for Zcat, which handles compression. -- Selected by Brad Templeton. MAIL your joke (jokes ONLY) to funny@clarinet.com. Attribute the joke's source if at all possible. A Daemon will auto-reply. Remember: PLEASE spell check and proofread your jokes. You think I have time to hand-correct everybody's postings?
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