5 terminal facts that sound fake (but aren't)
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A bit of terminal trivia for your next coffee break. All five are true, I promise. 1. 'grep' is a sentence, not a word. Before grep existed, you'd search a file in the ed editor with: g/re/p g lobal · r egular e xpression · p rint. Ken Thompson turned that one command into its own program, and the…
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5 terminal facts that sound fake (but aren't)