From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: winkywooster@gmail.com (Eric Blood) Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2018 14:22:54 -0600 Subject: [TUHS] rm command Message-ID: 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