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??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 Hater’s Handbook
Now this looks like an interesting read. Thanks!
I SAID, pass the wood
🤷 that’s why we have ls, rm, mv and hell, even w.
To confuse things even more there’s a utility called pwgen and I can never remember which two letters to type before hitting autocomplete.
“umount” is worse
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
Unfortunately all the 2, 3 and 4 letter combinations are used as an alias for when i mistype “ls”
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.
pwned
I use muscle memory.
I usually abbreviate these “in German” in my head. Esp. handy if there’s a freaking double-U in it, which is just one syllable in German. Exception: /etc = Etsy
isn’t it just ‘present working directory’?
That’s what I’ve always known it as
