[GLLUG] Meeting Thursday, September 28

[Eric Miller]

Same here. ls is short for list. I guess the "logic" behind this is that 
you can remove vowels and still understand what it is combined with the 
desire to save keystrokes (lst is one key longer than ls). Some may 
think it's taken a bit to the extreme in *nix but I like the most common 
commands as short as possible. In DOS the commands are usually short 
(e.g. dir = ls).

Half to admit I was confused at first, having come from a DOS 
background, by some of the tongue-in-cheek names like less = more.

Remember those support calls where you had to explain to a user how to 
type "type" so they could cat a file? Most of the time I resorted to 
spelling it out. :-)

Caleb Cushing wrote:
> remind me to refute this in my presentation, because, sorry tom, this
> is simply untrue, or irrelavant most commands make more sense to me
> than in other os's and proprietary has names that are just as weird or
> make less sense.
>