Re: unix acronyms -collecting a list?

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From: Matthias Buelow
Date: Sun, 11 May 1997 00:00

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In article <5kd2ng$c8b$1@rzsun02.rrz.uni-hamburg.de>,
Matthias Kopfermann <fk5a005@rzaix42.uni-hamburg.de> wrote:

>characters. But it can also be inconvenient at times when you don't
>know them all especially when no information about the abbreviation within 
>the manpages, the infopages or whatever is available.

If you just want to know if programs exist for certain keywords or
if you have forgotten a command, you can use man -k.

>1) not every unix-willing person in the world knows each and every
>   abbreviation

What do you exactly define as "abbreviations"?
If you just want to get a hint about how the commands in /usr/bin
got their name, a "whatis /usr/bin/*" often does the trick.

For example whatis dd gives "convert and copy a file".  There you
got it where "dd" comes from, don't you?

>(this message came from Hamburg/Germany and i am trembling while posting this
> mail but i hope it does a good job)

Don't drink so much coffee and get some sleep. ;-)

-- 

	--token          *the daemon is free!*

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From: token@altair.franken.de (Matthias Buelow)
Subject: Re: unix acronyms -collecting a list?
Date: 1997/05/11
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