This is one of many jokes and humorous articles I collected, mainly from USENET and similar
sources in the early to mid 1990s. They're really not very interesting nowadays.
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Article: 3449 of rec.humor.funny
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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
Status: RO
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
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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.
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