alt Hacker NewsSo few of us use physical tapes these days, but the "tape archive" (tar) remains ubiquitous.
Not entirely unserious: "awk" is a good name because it is three characters to type "rg" is better than "grep" because it is two fewer characters type
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necovek • today at 2:31 AM
I would if they weren't so outrageously expensive (tapes and tape drives ;))
There's a reason why the basic Unix file commands are ls, cp, mv, rm.
They're easy to type on a TTY.
grep is from the ed command "g/re/p" which is g (all lines, short for "1,$") /re/ regular expression to search for, "p" to print the lines.
It still works in vi.