[olug] TLA duplicity

[Jay Woods]

On Wednesday 04 February 2004 08:56 am, Bill Brush wrote:
> olug-bounces at olug.org wrote on 02/04/2004 07:30:46 AM:
> > I still say there's two types of TLA (off the top of my head during the
> > meeting last night):
> >
> > TLA: Three Letter Abbreviations
also two letter and tetra letter
ls cp mv ar rm  ps df du ex vi id ln pr sh su tr ul wc - These were the 
original commands in unix (because they could be stored in one word according 
to my class in unix in 1978).
> > mnt usr lib tmp dev opt var bin vim
arch atrm bash biff cpio diff grep
> >
> > TLA: Three Letter Acronyms
> > pwd pid uid gid cpu gnu lug ntp ide irc ram rom dvd cdr lvm
> >
> > ?: What are these short for anyway?
> > cat tac tar
>
> cat = conCATenate
tac = cat backwards as the file is printed backwards line by line.
> tar = TApe aRchive (or Tape ARchive)
>
> Bill
>
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