2026-05-03 06:21 UTC
Replies (40)
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@Bfordham@infosec.exchange 2026-05-03 06:43
@kamstrup or sed for when you need to edit a stream. Also TIL sed is a couple years older than me
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@datn@xoxo.zone 2026-05-03 06:59
@kamstrup so often I found myself wishing to print my regular expressions globally but lacked a pithy and intuitive command. then came --
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@brouhaha@mastodon.social 2026-05-03 07:35
@kamstrup Yep! You can't grep dead trees.
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@nschultz@aus.social 2026-05-03 07:49
@kamstrup cat, if you want to cat a file...
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@dngrs@chaos.social 2026-05-03 07:57
@kamstrup well, that's ..... awkward
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@jacktrek@mountains.social 2026-05-03 08:02
@kamstrup it was even more intuitive originally: s (for search) : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grep#History
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@eseilt@mastodon.scot 2026-05-03 08:02
@kamstrup and awk if you need to look at documentation and give up and write a python script
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@khleedril@cyberplace.social 2026-05-03 08:03
@kamstrup sudo make me a sandwich (why didn't they call it 'please?'
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@annehargreaves@ioc.exchange 2026-05-03 08:11
@kamstrup or there are 2 where the name mirrors each-other like adduser useradd just for lols
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@fatoldhippy@infosec.exchange 2026-05-03 08:12
@kamstrup awk, obviously...
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@Amorpheus@kind.social 2026-05-03 08:18
@kamstrup True... just like awk for awkward.
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@skjeggtroll@mastodon.online 2026-05-03 08:20
@kamstrup And 'less' for when you need a little more more than more.
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@dean36963@mastodon.green 2026-05-03 08:22
@kamstrup or dd if you want to destroy a disk
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@hanscees@ieji.de 2026-05-03 08:22
@kamstrup I moved a file, and then wanted to move it back, thus removing it
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@nske@ravenation.club 2026-05-03 08:27
@kamstrup Then you can use nano to nano the file.
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@jmorahan@mastodon.ie 2026-05-03 08:32
@kamstrup or 'man' if you want something explained to you
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@heals@indiepocalypse.social 2026-05-03 08:50
@kamstrup or “ag”, “hx” and “awk” if you just wanted to stretch and yawn into your terminal @aeva
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@dsw@mastodontech.de 2026-05-03 08:52
@kamstrup Actually, you can also use them to tell a short story like: unzip | strip | touch | finger | grep | mount | fsck | unmount | sleep
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@elnecesario@mastodon.social 2026-05-07 09:03
@synlogic4242 @datn @kamstrup true 😂
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@lina@eientei.org 2026-05-15 13:43
@kamstrup@fosstodon.org this guy sounds like he uses cp for cp
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@wariat@mastodon.social 2026-05-03 08:54
@kamstrup@fosstodon.org Or for more complex example… cat something | wc if you want to wc something what cat sent through the pipe.
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@tomminieminen@mastodontti.fi 2026-05-03 08:54
@kamstrup@fosstodon.org On a totally unrelated matter, I love it that in Apple II, `cat` listed files, while in Un*x it echoes their contents.
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@ghouston@mamot.fr 2026-05-03 09:10
@kamstrup@fosstodon.org Ed is the standard text editor. https://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/ed-msg.html
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@plombirka@mk.ilyamikcoder.com 2026-05-03 09:56
@kamstrup@fosstodon.org g/re(gex)/p
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@kithrup@wandering.shop 2026-05-03 09:57
@kamstrup@fosstodon.org Bah, I remember gres you know.
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@Dj4n90@mastodon.social 2026-05-03 10:15
@kamstrup@fosstodon.org Or shred to shred datas.
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@yokofakun@genomic.social 2026-05-03 10:21
@kamstrup@fosstodon.org and 'paste', if you want to paste a file .
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@KarlPettersson@mastodon.nu 2026-05-03 10:31
@kamstrup@fosstodon.org In Swedish, “grep” is a garden fork, used to dig into soil. One could see some connection there. https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grep
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@1div0@mastodon.social 2026-05-03 10:33
@kamstrup@fosstodon.org Biggest issue in the UNIX® design is to find the approprate icon for grep.
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@marco@mastodon.skup.in 2026-05-03 10:41
@kamstrup@fosstodon.org Or 'mount' to mount a disk and 'umount' for umounting a disk
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@dwillanski@aus.social 2026-05-03 10:47
@kamstrup@fosstodon.org then of course there's fsck
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@Oggie@woof.group 2026-05-03 10:53
@kamstrup@fosstodon.org And 'ed' if you want to end up hurling your computer out a window!
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@hakona@im.alstadheim.no 2026-05-03 10:53
@kamstrup@fosstodon.org All well and good. Now do MS-DOS "find" and "type" vs unix. Then twist into the EFI shell, ...
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@licho@kolektiva.social 2026-05-03 10:55
@kamstrup@fosstodon.org and cat if you need a cat
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@happyborg@fosstodon.org 2026-05-03 11:01
@kamstrup@fosstodon.org dd for delete data :rofl: Maybe it was to encourage us to RTFM?
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@js@mastodon.nl 2026-05-03 11:05
@kamstrup@fosstodon.org awk if need to get stuff from awkward data
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@js@mastodon.nl 2026-05-03 11:07
@kamstrup@fosstodon.org view to view a file, minus ew if you want to tidy it up a bit
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@js@mastodon.nl 2026-05-03 11:09
@kamstrup@fosstodon.org man if you need some mansplainin
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@TinySmall_@mastodon.social 2026-05-03 11:45
@kamstrup@fosstodon.org e-ll-ing a folders content
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@TomSeppert@fosstodon.org 2026-05-03 12:02
@kamstrup@fosstodon.org Like people remember where they were on 9/11, I remember vividly my first "shutdown -h now" on some BSD variant I just installed some 25 years ago. My first non Microsoft install. Felt like magic.