====== UNIX commands acronym ====== * **adb**: a dreadful bug\\ another damn bug\\ antedilluvian bug eater * **c++**: cannot add * **cat**: compose a tune * **cc**: change channels * **cd**: can't define * **cpio**: corrupt process in operation * **cron**: can run only nightly * **csh**: complete sh\\ crash system and halt\\ crash system hardware\\ can't and shan't help * **date**: display a time estimate * **df**: disk full * **dump**: destroy user's modified programs\\ don't use my programs * **ed**: eject disk * **grep**: get ready to eat the processor\\ greates request ever produced\\ gurus recovery expert program * **lp**: lose printout * **lpr**: lose printout repeatedly * **lpr -m**: mail me that you've lost printout repetedly * **ls**: last supper\\ let's sex\\ less sex\\ let's see\\ long story * **ls -l**: lots of silly lines * **mail**: make an infinite loop * **man**: many ambitious notes\\ minimum assistance to novices\\ male aid needed * **nroff**: nearly random output file formatter * **od**: obscures data\\ oh, dear * **passwd**: pick a seven symbol word, dummy * **ps**: print suspects * **rm**: read manual\\ realise mistake * **rm -i**: realise mistake (after impatient response) * **rm -r**: read manual -religiously * **rmdir**: randomly modify directories in root * **sh**: sans historie\\ system halt * **sort**: shift, organise, rotate - truncate * **su**: suspend user * **sync**: sorry your network crashed * **time**: totally inaccurate measure of execution * **vi**: very insensitive\\ violate intuition\\ virtually impossible\\ virtually incompehensible\\ virtually intelligible\\ virtually inept * **wait**: wow! another idiot time consumer