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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.uwa.edu.au!disco.iinet.net.au!news1.mpcs.com!news.radio.cz!europa.clark.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in3.uu.net!198.6.201.7!quest.ccsi.com!ccsi.com!armajiro From: armajiro@ccsi.com (Mike Cheselka) 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: 28 May 1997 07:15:09 GMT Organization: Commuter Communication Systems Lines: 16 Message-ID: <5mgm1t$3se$1@quest.ccsi.com> References: <5kd2ng$c8b$1@rzsun02.rrz.uni-hamburg.de> <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> NNTP-Posting-Host: infinity.ccsi.com Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.shell:45487 comp.os.linux.misc:177389 comp.os.linux.x:62723 alt.os.linux:21640 comp.unix.bsd.misc:3434 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:41760 gnu.misc.discuss:31520 comp.unix.solaris:107814 In article <sejaflix4fw.fsf@ethanol.gnu.ai.mit.edu>, Joel Ray Holveck <joelh@gnu.ai.mit.edu> 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. Actually, dd stands for copy & convert, but cc was already taken. >The functionality of 'cat .profile' makes little sense for a file >concatenator, but cat found uses other than concatenation. cat means to concatant; in this sense stdout is unspoken.