>> > 15:55 linux01:~ > md xx
>> > 15:55 linux01:~ > cd xx
>> > 15:55 linux01:~/xx > rd ../xx
>>
>> What's `rd`?
>
>alias rd='rmdir'
>
>Historically found in SuSEs /etc/profile, some of us, who get used to it 
>migrated that into /etc/profile.local on newer distributions..

And the true origin is MS-DOS. (md and rd -- both are aliases in the unix 
world. For mkdir and rmdir. The time saving is obvious! :-)


Jan Engelhardt
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