My kryptonite is
duwhich reports disk usage, anddfwhich reports disk file size, or no, wait,duis file size anddfis disk usage.Most of the time I can only remember whichever one I don’t need at the moment and futilely hope that its man page will mention the other (which it doesn’t).
I pronounce it pwood.
Pwud here
I use it both for password and
pwdinterchangeablyI always called it Present Working Directory but apparently it’s Print
Sir this is Wendy’s
On a side note:
I hate it that the password-change command is minimally abbreviated to “passwd”.
Come on, making it much more complicated to remember and saving just two freakin letters??making it much more complicated to remember
Do you not tab-complete your commands? I mean, my terminal usage for anything beyond very short commands consists of <first few letters of command> <TAB>.
Do you not tab-complete your commands?
Sure I do (although nowadays Strg-r does most of the heavy lifting for me), but as a decent touch-typist I am often faster directly typing short commands, like passwor… damn, I mean: passwd ;-)
Strg-r does most of the heavy lifting for me
If you haven’t, give fzf a try. Is like Ctrl+r in asteroids
“umount” is worse
First time I have to use it, the spelling really confused me. Wrote unmount and didn’t understand why it didn’t work.
I guess this also must be an additional layer of hellfire for dyslexics…
But the only command that I have to look up every damn time, although it has no abbreviation at all, is useradd.
Oh no, wait, I mean adduser!
… No, wait again… aah…Next update changes it to usadder as a compromise. Supposedly, it’s short for “user adder” but we all know it’s to make “[you] sadder”.
All the worse that Debian has both useradd and adduser. I never remember which is the one I want. And in Redhat-derivatives it’s something even more confusing.
The only thing I ever want to do is add a user to a group, is that too much to ask?
adduseris an interactive wrapper foruseradd. It can, for example, prompt the user to set a password rather than executepasswdseparately. Very useful if you just want to manage a user without reading throughuseradd’s command line options, then runningusermodbecause you forgot to set something.It doesn’t excuse the bad naming, I’d rather have something like
useradd --interactive, but it’s worth remembering.You’d want
usermodfor that, no? If the user already exists and you’re just modifying their groups?@ozymandias117 @Hawke why not gpasswd?
They did boatloads of horrific things to save bytes. They radix encoded strings, created the y2k and 2038 problems, normalized redirecting output to /dev/null, passed raw text blocks through a fifo file buffer rather than properly tagged data, ditched proper exception handling and a bunch more listed in the Unix Hater’s Handbook
Now this looks like an interesting read. Thanks!
Kinda, but it’s pretty much all horrendously outdated bitching about superficial flaws in tools from 40 years ago.
It’s the passw daemon
I SAID, pass the wood
🤷 that’s why we have ls, rm, mv and hell, even w.
To confuse things even more there’s a utility called pwgen and I can never remember which two letters to type before hitting autocomplete.
mv = move, thus:
- rm = rome
- ls = lose
- cd = code
- w = woe
That is so cool.
So
- tr = tore
- tty = totey
- rsync = rosynce
- ps = pose
- pr = pore
- mpd = moped
I could do this all day.
isn’t it just ‘present working directory’?
You “print” to standard output, which is the terminal.
Unless you’re old-school and using a teletype as your terminal and actually printing it.
No. “Print working directory” is the command to print (display) the “cwd” (current working directory).
I find it weird when you get “pwd” as a variable
Kinda yeah, but I think that just comes from storing the output of the PWD command.
The system call that returns that value is called getcwd().
It’s ‘print current directory’ in the source code:
https://github.com/coreutils/coreutils/blob/42c4578b49afaf3dc8de884262f34e4a19066860/src/pwd.c#L1
This is what it is at least in my head
In my head too. We can share though.
That’s what I’ve always known it as
I mean it’s basically the same thing but the command itself means “print”; it’s a damn old command and it probably predates using screens for terminals (used to be printers); which is why all the parts of Linux (ugh, and GNU of course) that came from Unix ideas came from that age.
You literally sat in front of a typewriter that would respond to you. Wild.
Welp, I always thought path-to-working-directory like to get the full path
pwned
Just make an alias with a more convenient name.
alias ‘where_the_fuck_am_i’=“pwd”
alias who_the_fuck_am_i='whoami'alias what_the_hell_is_going_on='btop'alias who_the_fuck_is_that=fingeralias finger_me='finger $USER'What the hell is wrong with all of you? Command names obviously use
-and not_alias _=‘-’
alias too_late='echo 😛'
Unfortunately all the 2, 3 and 4 letter combinations are used as an alias for when i mistype “ls”
I thought it meant p-word. As in “wet ass p-word”
You are allowed to say pussy on the internet. Cats did nothing wrong.
“If cats looked like frogs we’d realize what nasty, cruel little bastards they are.”
- Lords and Ladies
I usually abbreviate these “in German” in my head. Esp. handy if there’s a freaking double-U in it, which is just one syllable in German. Exception: /etc = Etsy
I’m still not over the fact that /etc isn’t for et cetera
EDIT: turns out that it is, and that there’s a lot of dumbasses on the internet “teaching”
You might be right.
I am German and never had a problem with pwd… The “double-you” certainly breaks some easy phonetic connections you would otherwise just make…
I use muscle memory.
