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I thought GREP was scandanavian, like from Jim Cavezel in Outlander.

1 posted on 05/29/2015 6:07:16 AM PDT by CharlesOConnell

To: CharlesOConnell

So UNIX was written by A ho?..........................

2 posted on 05/29/2015 6:11:52 AM PDT by Red Badger (Man builds a ship in a bottle. God builds a universe in the palm of His hand.............)

To: CharlesOConnell

Abort Retry Fail was named for the sound Bill Gates dog made.

3 posted on 05/29/2015 6:14:18 AM PDT by bigbob (The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln)

To: CharlesOConnell

Another is dumho. It writes Hillary 10,000 times to stderr.

4 posted on 05/29/2015 6:20:38 AM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie

To: CharlesOConnell

Unix ping

5 posted on 05/29/2015 6:20:51 AM PDT by broken_arrow1 (I regret that I have but one life to give for my country - Nathan Hale "Patriot")

To: CharlesOConnell

In unix a good parent, before they die, kills off all their children before they become zombies.

6 posted on 05/29/2015 6:25:20 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)

To: CharlesOConnell

UNIX was reversed engineered from the operating system of the computer on the UFO that crashed an Roswell ... hence the weird command names

8 posted on 05/29/2015 7:08:29 AM PDT by tophat9000 (An Eye for an Eye, a Word for a Word...nothing more)

To: CharlesOConnell; rdb3; Calvinist_Dark_Lord; JosephW; Only1choice____Freedom; amigatec; ...

9 posted on 05/29/2015 7:09:28 AM PDT by ShadowAce (Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)

To: CharlesOConnell

chown -R us ./base

10 posted on 05/29/2015 7:12:23 AM PDT by tacticalogic ("Oh, bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)

To: CharlesOConnell

I’ve often thought the folks who originally developed Unix were Jewish, or just had a major phobia of vowels.

13 posted on 05/29/2015 8:21:03 AM PDT by zeugma (Are there more nearby spiders than the sun is big?)

To: CharlesOConnell

fsck - yes, it resembles the naughty word you think it does. There is a very good reason it hasn’t been changed.

16 posted on 05/29/2015 8:45:20 AM PDT by Billthedrill

To: CharlesOConnell

It’s called “Job Security”.