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Message-ID-Hash: JH4XNYSBZOTY2JWQMXJKAQPTODCYZR2Y X-Message-ID-Hash: JH4XNYSBZOTY2JWQMXJKAQPTODCYZR2Y X-MailFrom: steffen@sdaoden.eu X-Mailman-Rule-Misses: dmarc-mitigation; no-senders; approved; emergency; loop; banned-address; member-moderation; header-match-tuhs.tuhs.org-0; nonmember-moderation; administrivia; implicit-dest; max-recipients; max-size; news-moderation; no-subject; digests; suspicious-header CC: tuhs@tuhs.org X-Mailman-Version: 3.3.6b1 Precedence: list Subject: [TUHS] Re: On computerese List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list Archived-At: List-Archive: List-Help: List-Owner: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: Henry Bent wrote in : |On Mon, 30 Sept 2024 at 14:08, Dan Cross wrote: |> This makes me wonder when the `apropos` command was introduced; surely |> the name was also somewhat of an obscure joke ("what is apropos of |> listing a directory?" is not exactly the phrase that springs |> immediately to mind when wondering how to list a directory). |> | |Looks like it was introduced in 2BSD, written by Bill Joy, though the |4.4BSD manpage claims that it was introduced in 3BSD. Neither the BSD |source nor manpage are particularly enlightening about the choice of name. "a pro position" maybe. (Having said that #?0|kent:linux$ apropos 'directory list' CURLOPT_DIRLISTONLY (3) - ask for names only in a directory listing vs #?0|kent:linux$ apropos 'list directory' dir (1) - list directory contents ls (1) - list directory contents ls (1p) - list directory contents vdir (1) - list directory contents vs #?0|kent:linux$ apropos -a list directory chacl (1) - change the access control list of a file or directory CURLOPT_DIRLISTONLY (3) - ask for names only in a directory listing dir (1) - list directory contents ls (1) - list directory contents ls (1p) - list directory contents vdir (1) - list directory contents vs #?0|kent:linux$ apropos -a directory list ..same.. needs a "pro user" from the start; AI would instead and additionally clean your back i would assume. --steffen | |Der Kragenbaer, The moon bear, |der holt sich munter he cheerfully and one by one |einen nach dem anderen runter wa.ks himself off |(By Robert Gernhardt)