The guys who created UNIX must think they’re pretty clever

While going through the available commands in Mac OS X 10.4, I found some interesting ones…

amaze – wander around in a maze
bison – GNU Project parser generator (a replacement for yacc)
lipo – create or operate on ‘fat’ files
yes – (be a yes man…) repetitively output ‘y’ (or an expletive of your choice) for all eternity
wall – send messages to all users (by writing ‘on’ the wall)

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4 Responses to “The guys who created UNIX must think they’re pretty clever”

  1. My Required Name Says:
    July 3rd, 2005 at 10:12 am

    The guys who created Unix *are* pretty clever. Smart people like word play (and build OSes!). Even the name Unix is a pun on an OS that was seen as pretty bad at the time (Multics).

    GNU’s Not Unix
    LAME Ain’t an MP3 Encoder
    WINE Is Not an Emulator

  2. Dan Says:
    July 3rd, 2005 at 4:11 pm

    Wow – pretty snazzy commands. I thought I’ve had some “clever” conversations before, but nothing that rivals getting that kind of stuff.

  3. Paulo Says:
    July 3rd, 2005 at 5:03 pm

    I normally don’t do this but whoever posted that first comment should really sign their name. Especially with a post like that.

    Just a courtesy thing.

    Also. . . “ain’t” is not a word

  4. steev Says:
    July 4th, 2005 at 1:32 am

    My Required Name: Not to be antagonistic, but do I know you? You would appear to hail from The Netherlands, and I know of only one acquaintance who is even close by.

    Did you come across this site from one of the other sites “affiliated” with ping-o-matic?

    Finally, just as a matter of personal taste, I don’t find recursive acronyms to be nearly as clever as some of the wonderful entries I’ve found in the *NIX manpages over the years.

    Cheers,
    steev