Hi All,
If you have trouble remembering the initialism "nmcli" like I do, this is my trick for remembering it:
(N)etwork (M)anager (C)ommand (L)ine (I)nterface
:-)
Now all I have to do is remember "Network Manager".
:'(
-T
On 8/2/20 6:29 PM, ToddAndMargo via users wrote:
If you have trouble remembering the initialism "nmcli" like I do, this is my trick for remembering it:
(N)etwork (M)anager (C)ommand (L)ine (I)nterface
I find it hard to consider that a "trick" when that is its actual name and purpose. Did you think it was something else?
On 2020-08-02 20:58, Samuel Sieb wrote:
On 8/2/20 6:29 PM, ToddAndMargo via users wrote:
If you have trouble remembering the initialism "nmcli" like I do, this is my trick for remembering it:
(N)etwork (M)anager (C)ommand (L)ine (I)nterface
I find it hard to consider that a "trick" when that is its actual name and purpose. Did you think it was something else?
It never occurred to me for the longest time that that was what it was an initialism for. I thought is was some funny name like grep for the longest time.
On 2020-08-02 23:39, Joe Zeff wrote:
On 08/03/2020 12:24 AM, ToddAndMargo via users wrote:
It never occurred to me for the longest time that that was what it was an initialism for. I thought is was some funny name like grep for the longest time.
You mean Global Regular Expression search and Print?
Holy crap! Someone really wanted it to say GREP. Hmmm. GRESP stinks
My favorite is Common Unix Scanning System. But they chose "sane" instead. Huh. I wonder what they do not like about "CUSS"?
:-)
On Mon, Aug 3, 2020 at 6:17 AM ToddAndMargo via users users@lists.fedoraproject.org wrote:
On 2020-08-02 23:39, Joe Zeff wrote:
On 08/03/2020 12:24 AM, ToddAndMargo via users wrote:
It never occurred to me for the longest time that that was what it was an initialism for. I thought is was some funny name like grep for the longest time.
You mean Global Regular Expression search and Print?
Holy crap! Someone really wanted it to say GREP. Hmmm. GRESP stinks
My favorite is Common Unix Scanning System. But they chose "sane" instead. Huh. I wonder what they do not like about "CUSS"?
:-)
Of the acronyms, one of my favourites is GNU: Gnu is Not Unix. Now, if you want to see silliness in action, check US military ones: they love them acronyms because they think it makes them sound clever, and want them to sound badass. So they come with a few which are made by forcing together words that have no business being near each other when using normal words would have made more sense.
On Mon, 2020-08-03 at 02:18 -0700, ToddAndMargo via users wrote:
On 2020-08-02 23:39, Joe Zeff wrote:
On 08/03/2020 12:24 AM, ToddAndMargo via users wrote:
It never occurred to me for the longest time that that was what it was an initialism for. I thought is was some funny name like grep for the longest time.
You mean Global Regular Expression search and Print?
Holy crap! Someone really wanted it to say GREP.
Early UNIX systems had Teletype terminals. They were slow and difficult to type on. That's why so many of the basic commands are short. I still remember smiling when the 6th Edition introduced 'cd' instead of 'chdir'. The original text editor 'ed' had one-letter commands and only printed the result of an edit if you explicitly asked for it. Someone (possibly Brian Kernighan) described it as playing blindfold chess.
poc
On 8/3/20 6:15 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
On Mon, 2020-08-03 at 02:18 -0700, ToddAndMargo via users wrote:
On 2020-08-02 23:39, Joe Zeff wrote:
On 08/03/2020 12:24 AM, ToddAndMargo via users wrote:
It never occurred to me for the longest time that that was what it was an initialism for. I thought is was some funny name like grep for the longest time.
You mean Global Regular Expression search and Print?
Holy crap! Someone really wanted it to say GREP.
Early UNIX systems had Teletype terminals. They were slow and difficult to type on. That's why so many of the basic commands are short. I still remember smiling when the 6th Edition introduced 'cd' instead of 'chdir'. The original text editor 'ed' had one-letter commands and only printed the result of an edit if you explicitly asked for it.
And it only printed a single '?' if you had an error in a command. "The experienced user will usually understand what the error is." (You had to type an 'h' to see the full error message.)
On 8/3/20 2:18 AM, ToddAndMargo via users wrote:
On 2020-08-02 23:39, Joe Zeff wrote:
You mean Global Regular Expression search and Print?
Holy crap! Someone really wanted it to say GREP.
"g", "re", "p" were/are the commands in the "ed" editor to search a file for regex and print the matching lines. The "grep" tool just used a key sequence that "ed" users were familiar with:
On 08/03/2020 03:18 AM, ToddAndMargo via users wrote:
My favorite is Common Unix Scanning System. But they chose "sane" instead. Huh. I wonder what they do not like about "CUSS"?
Legend has it that the File System ChecKer was originally the File Utility ChecKer until somebody had a sudden outbreak of common sense.
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