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Aucbvax.5570 fa.unix-wizards utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!unix-wizards Sun Dec 27 00:40:17 1981 criticisms of Unix >From mclure@SRI-UNIX Sun Dec 27 00:28:24 1981 By far the criticism I hear most often from new Unix users is the atrocious naming of commands. They urge `cat' be renamed to `ty', `rm' to `del', `grep' to `search', etc.

When they argue this way, there's little to be said. They are absolutely right. Is there *any* hope of making Unix commands more reasonable?

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