i once had my laptop at work and it had an open shell window. When i wasn't looking, a Linux-knowledgable colleague of mine thought it would be funny to type in 'rm -fr /' and see if i got upset. Just one comment about Unix and Linux regarding the older Unix 2/3 letter commands. While the terseness of Unix is partially because Thompson used an
On Tuesday 26 September 2006 1:20 pm, stephan beal wrote:
old ASR-33 printing teletypewriter, but also the Unix commands were
designed to be simple tools that all worked together. Most of the commands
took their default input from stdin and piped their output to stdout, so
that the use could tie a number of commands together in a script or alias
to make a more complex as well as customized command.
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Jerry Feldman