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pizza with dick is how i reamber it
My kryptonite is du which reports disk usage, and df which reports disk file size, or no, wait, du is file size and df is disk usage.
Most of the time I can only remember whichever one I don't need at the moment and futilely hope that its man page will mention the other (which it doesn't).
I'm always like "du shows disk usage of files, and df shows how much of disk is free".
On a side note:
I hate it that the password-change command is minimally abbreviated to "passwd".
Come on, making it much more complicated to remember and saving just two freakin letters??
"umount" is worse
But the only command that I have to look up every damn time, although it has no abbreviation at all, is useradd.
Oh no, wait, I mean adduser!
... No, wait again... aah...
Next update changes it to usadder as a compromise. Supposedly, it's short for "user adder" but we all know it's to make "[you] sadder".
All the worse that Debian has both useradd and adduser. I never remember which is the one I want. And in Redhat-derivatives itβs something even more confusing.
The only thing I ever want to do is add a user to a group, is that too much to ask?
adduser is an interactive wrapper for useradd. It can, for example, prompt the user to set a password rather than execute passwd separately. Very useful if you just want to manage a user without reading through useradd's command line options, then running usermod because you forgot to set something.
It doesn't excuse the bad naming, I'd rather have something like useradd --interactive, but it's worth remembering.
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First time I have to use it, the spelling really confused me. Wrote unmount and didnβt understand why it didnβt work.
I guess this also must be an additional layer of hellfire for dyslexics...
They did boatloads of horrific things to save bytes. They radix encoded strings, created the y2k and 2038 problems, normalized redirecting output to /dev/null, passed raw text blocks through a fifo file buffer rather than properly tagged data, ditched proper exception handling and a bunch more listed in the Unix Haterβs Handbook
Now this looks like an interesting read. Thanks!
Kinda, but itβs pretty much all horrendously outdated bitching about superficial flaws in tools from 40 years ago.
Itβs the passw daemon
I SAID, pass the wood
making it much more complicated to remember
Do you not tab-complete your commands? I mean, my terminal usage for anything beyond very short commands consists of .
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isn't it just 'present working directory'?
It absolutely can be either and is not so clear cut as responders are claiming.
Weather its 'print working directory' or 'present working directory' depends on the source you ask, and ultimately they have the same meaning so it really doesn't matter which you use.
Whenever pwd is used as a variable, 'present' is more logical than 'print'.
https://qmacro.org/blog/posts/2020/11/08/the-myriad-meanings-of-pwd-in-unix-systems/
No. βPrint working directoryβ is the command to print (display) the βcwdβ (current working directory).
It's 'print current directory' in the source code:
https://github.com/coreutils/coreutils/blob/42c4578b49afaf3dc8de884262f34e4a19066860/src/pwd.c#L1
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pwned
I always called it Present Working Directory but apparently it's Print
Same, mind blown
Just make an alias with a more convenient name.
alias 'where_the_fuck_am_i'="pwd"
alias who_the_fuck_am_i='whoami'
alias what_the_hell_is_going_on='btop'
alias who_the_fuck_is_that=finger
alias finger_me='finger $USER'
What the hell is wrong with all of you? Command names obviously use - and not _
alias _='-'
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I thought it meant p-word. As in "wet ass p-word"
You are allowed to say pussy on the internet. Cats did nothing wrong.
Ah yes, everyone knows how "pwd" looks like "pussy" and definitely not "p-word".
I think you missed the WAP aka wet ass pussy song title reference in their "wet ass p-word".
Pretty sure it refers to a clip of the "intellectual" Ben Shapiro being afraid to say the word "pussy" when reading through the lyrics of the song and making misogynistic comments about it
Okay, so you did get the wordplay between pwd, pussy, and p-word in the comment.
Unless I'm really slow and I missed another joke I don't get your complaint on my joke response, sorry.
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