From: doug@cs.dartmouth.edu (Doug McIlroy)
Subject: [TUHS] etymology of read -u
Date: Tue, 31 May 2016 03:27:43 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201605310727.u4V7Rhmp030422@coolidge.cs.Dartmouth.EDU> (raw)
What's the mnmonic significance, if any, of the u in
the bash builtin read -u for reading from a specified
file descriptor? Evidently both f and d had already been
taken in analogy to usage in some other commands.
The best I can think of is u as in "tape unit", which
was common usage back in the days of READ INPUT TAPE 5.
That would make it the work of an old timer, maybe Dave Korn?
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2016-05-31 7:27 Doug McIlroy [this message]
2016-05-31 12:55 ` Chet Ramey
2016-05-31 14:35 ` Joerg Schilling
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2016-05-31 15:57 ` Dan Cross
2016-05-31 16:49 ` Joerg Schilling
2016-06-01 4:14 Doug McIlroy
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