The other acronym dictionary
yehudah
THE other ACRONYM LIST
NAME TYPE MEANING
------- ------- ------------------------------------------------------------
adb C Annialate the Damn Binary
ar C ARgh (from the latin argus)
as C Assemble it Somehow
awk C an expression when using it
bash C an action when using it
bin D a good place to throw them
bc C Better then Counting on your toes
c89 C will Compile it in only 89 more years
cat C dumps in an unprocessed format (similar to a cat)
cc C C? C? hello c?
cd B Constantly Disoriented
chmod C CHanged, Mucked and Otherwise Damaged
chown C CHanged, and blOWN away
ci C Crap In
cmp C Cats (see cat) Many Pages
co C Crap Out
cp C Crush Program (ain't that the truth)
cpio C Crush Program - extended to obliterate on various different
architectures
cpp C This is too easy
cron C Constantly Running Operator`s Nonsense
csh C C SHell run. Run shell run. Please.
...d C dead (inetd = Internet is dead, smtpd = mail is tanked,
nfsd = nfs is no more)
dbx C Exterminate those Damn Binaries
dc C Dumb Calulator
dd C Destroy lots o Data (called so because of its arguments)
dev D DEVious
df C Deranged Format
diff C Doesn't Interpret Funny Files
ed C a horse is a horse, of course
egrep C Extended GRoPe (as in 'e grepped me')
elm C the Even Lusers can Mail program
emacs C Escape Meta Alt Control Shift
esac B (This was a typo. Ken loved it)
ex C this is an EX file
fd S Forgotten Data
fd D Fucked up Device
fgrep C Friendly GRoPe (or Fondle and Grope)
fi B (another typo, Ken was drunk)
fmt C "Files, Meet Trash"
fsck C (yet another typo)
ftp C Find The Pin (see hay-stack)
g... C Whizz
getty C Get tty (considered vulgar)
grep C GRoPe, as in search carefully (from latin "grape")
id C who Is Dat?
IFS E followed by THENS, ANDS, and BUTS
inode O as in INODE where de file id.
irc C Immature Ranting Callers
kmem S Kibo MEMory
ld C Link Dead
lex C Lost the EXecutable
ln C Link to Nowhere
lp S Lost to the Printer
lpp D Lost to the Previous Printer
lpq C Lost to the Printer Queue
lpr C Lost to the Printer at Random
ls C just plain LoSt
mem S it might be reMEMbered
mkfs C MaKe a FuSs
mv C MoVed
mvdir C MoVed and Damaged In Rewriting
nawk C when awk just doesn't express it
nm C your program is No More
nn C your program Never was Nothing (Nohow)
nroff C your file was Nuked and the editor Ran OFF with a
spreadsheet
od C Oh Dear
passwd C A polite fart
pcc C Please cc
pg C Proctored and Gamble (a test taking scheme)
pr C Proctored and Ripped-up (a test failing scheme)
ps C Proctored and Stolen (a BAD THING in general)
pty S a PiTY the server is down
pwd C Party With Drugs
r... S
r... C
rm C The sound of my Porche (oh ho ho)
rmdir C The sound of my Fiat
rmt S ReMounT
rmt C ReMounT the damn thing again
sdb C symbolic debugger (not really)
sed C but i SED .\*! not \.*!
sh C I'm hunting wbbts
su C I'm root. SU me.
tar C and feather
tbl C Tried, But no Luck
tcsh C Oh, tcsh tcsh (a sound of remorse)
tee C Where I'd rather be
telnet C Tried Every Line, Not Enough Telephones
tex C Time for EX (from latin Texus)
tty S (see getty)
TZ E Tanked and Zoned
rcp C Remote Cull and Plunder
rlogin C Remote Locate Open Gain-access Infiltrate and Nullify
ucb D Unfathomable Crud from Berkeley
uucp C U try, U send, U give up and then you rCP
vi C Visual for Idiots
wall C like speaking to a
xargs C eXtended ARGumentS (see ucb)
yacc C Yonder Are Come Creatures - yak yak
Stayed up too late. Sorry.
Jonathan (yehuda) Berlinger Tekoanet
yeh...@brachot.jct.ac.il
James Kibo Parry
In article <930602094...@brachot.jct.ac.il> yeh...@brachot.jct.ac.il (yehudah) writes:
> NAME TYPE MEANING
> ------- ------- ------------------------------------------------------------
> IFS E followed by THENS, ANDS, and BUTS
> inode O as in INODE where de file id.
> irc C Immature Ranting Callers
> kmem S Kibo MEMory
> ld C Link Dead
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