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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.netspace.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!uunet!in1.uu.net!144.212.100.12!news.mathworks.com!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!su-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!csn!nntp-xfer-1.csn.net!cbgw1.lucent.com!newshub.netnews.att.com!news From: Allen Kirby <akirby@att.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.x,alt.os.linux,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,gnu.misc.discuss,comp.unix.solaris Subject: Re: unix acronyms -collecting a list? Date: Tue, 27 May 1997 11:43:40 -0400 Organization: AT&T - ITS Production Services Lines: 26 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <338B012B.4C3B@att.com> References: <5kd2ng$c8b$1@rzsun02.rrz.uni-hamburg.de> <5l3c2f$i1j@pasilla.bbnplanet.com> <337A003F.6A7B@ncofsi.com> <3378D37F.462F3A47@gaijin.com> <Pine.SUN.3.95.970513170134.19438A-100000@omni2> <Pine.GSO.3.96.970513200952.7143D-100000@tree.Stanford.EDU> <sejaflix4fw.fsf@ethanol.gnu.ai.mit.edu> Reply-To: akirby@att.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 192.20.25.* Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Win95; U) To: Joel Ray Holveck <joelh@gnu.ai.mit.edu> Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.shell:45459 comp.os.linux.misc:177216 comp.os.linux.x:62642 alt.os.linux:21619 comp.unix.bsd.misc:3423 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:41701 gnu.misc.discuss:31498 comp.unix.solaris:107704 Joel Ray Holveck wrote: > > > > > dd = Data Dump (At least I always thought so) > > > Device Dump > > Sure about that one? The functionality of > > dd if=/tmp/myfile conv=ascii of=/tmp/newfile > > wouldn't make sense if the command were truly a device > > level operator. > > The functionality of 'cat .profile' makes little sense for a file > concatenator, but cat found uses other than concatenation. > > -- > http://www.wp.com/piquan --- Joel Ray Holveck --- joelh@gnu.ai.mit.edu > All my opinions are my own, not the Free Software Foundation's. > > Second law of programming: > Anything that can go wrong wi > sendmail: segmentation violation -- core dumped Ken Thompson confirmed that the origin of 'dd' was a joke on the IBM 'dd' mainframe command, which I believe stood for 'define data'. -- --- Allen Kirby AT&T ITS Production Services akirby@att.com Alpharetta, GA.