From: winkywooster@gmail.com (Eric Blood)
Subject: [TUHS] rm command
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2018 14:22:54 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAEEd6BV6wjLpcUp=_yi6Vwv32C9jV-W9N39CLVM8d8j0OhH_3w@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
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 reply other threads:[~2018-04-25 20:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-04-25 20:22 Eric Blood [this message]
2018-04-25 21:23 ` Ralph Corderoy
2018-04-25 21:33 ` John P. Linderman
2018-04-25 21:53 ` William Corcoran
2018-04-25 21:58 ` Derek Fawcus
2018-04-25 22:09 ` Ralph Corderoy
2018-04-25 22:17 Noel Chiappa
2018-04-27 16:26 ` Dave Horsfall
2018-04-27 16:58 ` Ian Zimmerman
2018-04-27 18:14 ` Steve Nickolas
2018-04-27 18:17 ` Pete Wright
2018-04-28 16:33 ` Michael Kjörling
2018-04-28 18:01 ` Ian Zimmerman
2018-04-28 18:51 ` Derek Fawcus
2018-04-26 2:19 Doug McIlroy
2018-04-26 9:41 ` Ralph Corderoy
2018-04-27 16:42 Noel Chiappa
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