From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: jpl.jpl@gmail.com (John P. Linderman) Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2018 14:33:24 -0700 Subject: [TUHS] rm command In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Another country heard from. I doubt the Robert Morris story, given that a command as fundamental as "rm" must have come about very early in the development, and there isn't a pattern of naming commands after their authors. On Wed, Apr 25, 2018 at 1:22 PM, Eric Blood wrote: > I came across this yesterday: > > > Fun fact: according to unsubstantiated UNIX lore, "rm" is NOT short-hand > > for "remove" but rather, it stands for the initials of the developer > that wrote > > the original implementation, Robert Morris. > > > > https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16916565 > > I was curious if there's any truth to it. I found > http://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl and was poking around but > couldn't determine when the rm command came about. > > Thoughts? > > -- > Eric Blood > winkywooster at gmail.com > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: