[575] in Humor
HUMOR: UNIX ABC's
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andrew A. Bennett)
Wed Nov 30 11:05:40 1994
To: humor@MIT.EDU
Date: Wed, 30 Nov 1994 11:01:10 EST
From: "Andrew A. Bennett" <abennett@MIT.EDU>
Date: Tue, 29 Nov 1994 23:35:50 -0500
From: Erik Nygren <nygren@MIT.EDU>
From: "Richard Basch" <basch@MIT.EDU>
THE ABC'S 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.
