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0xffff2 on Feb 18, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: C4: C in Four Functions (2014)

I read "grep", "ls" and "cd" as "grep", "el ess" and "cee dee". I don't even know what grep and ls stand for.

coolreader18 on Feb 18, 2020 | [–]

ls is a shortening of "list", i.e. list directory contents, and grep is apparently Global Regular Expression Print.

bumby on Feb 21, 2020 | [–]

grep comes from an amalgamation of commands for a global search applying a regular expression and printing the results I.e., “g/re/p”

ls just simply stands for list

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