Nick Rout wrote: > Now this I like, someone who actually went out and read a book or a > tutorial on the net and worked something out for himself. Yes, some of > the command line commands have very short and cryptic names. Remember > they were probably developed on teletype machines or terminals running > at 1200 baud (or less?) by people who used the command line all day > every day. hence tr=translate, cp=copy, mv=move, ls=list, Now where the > hell did they get awk, glob & grep from?
awk: Aho, Weinberger, Kernighan, (I think). The guys who wrote the program. Kernighan also co-invented the C programming language with Dennis Ritchie, who co-invented UNIX with Ken Thompson. I'll be doing a brief introduction to UNIX history in my talk (See! It's not going to be *all* command line stuff :-)
