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Accidents Will Happen 21 DOS and Windows give you something more like a sewage line with a trap than a wastebasket. It simply de ...

22 Welcome, New User! Date: Wed, 10 Jan 90 15:51 CST From: [email protected] Subject: Re: rm * Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers ...

Accidents Will Happen 23 chainsaw was just a rite of passage for its users.” “May it please the court, we will show that getting ...

24 Welcome, New User! Date: Thu, 11 Jan 90 17:17 CST From: [email protected] (Randal L. Schwartz) Subject: Don’t overload c ...

Consistently Inconsistent 25 was reported in those messages, most of those very same sysadmins came to Unix’s defense when it wa ...

26 Welcome, New User! Unix utilities. As a result, some utilities take their options preceded by a dash, some don’t. Some read s ...

Consistently Inconsistent 27 OPTIONS. (“Cat came back from Berkeley waving flags,” in the words of Rob Pike, perhaps the ultimat ...

28 Welcome, New User! Then there’s the story of the poor student who happened to have a file called “-r” in his home directory. ...

Consistently Inconsistent 29 % rm -file usage: rm [-rif] file ... % rm ?file usage: rm [-rif] file ... % rm ????? usage: rm [-ri ...

30 Welcome, New User! next% mkdir foo next% ls -Fd foo foo/ next% rm foo/ rm: foo/ directory next% rmdir foo/ rmdir: foo/: File ...

Error Messages and Error Checking, NOT! 31 and alias (where did those long names come from?), are examples of com- mands that li ...

32 Welcome, New User! % cc -o doit.c doit instead of: % cc -o doit doit.c Needless to say I have lost doit.c Is there anyway I c ...

Error Messages and Error Checking, NOT! 33 Do I need to waste another 30 minutes retrieving the file from Europe? Of course, thi ...

34 Welcome, New User! Of course, though, on this occasion I mistyped as my fingers go on autopilot and prefer the word ‘indent’ ...

Error Messages and Error Checking, NOT! 35 Error Jokes Do you laugh when the waiter drops a tray full of dishes? Unix weenies do ...

36 Welcome, New User! no sense in pretending! $ drink <bottle; opener bottle: cannot open opener: not found $ mkdir matter; c ...

The Unix Attitude 37 The Unix Attitude........................................................................ We’ve painted a r ...

38 Welcome, New User! Most of you, of course, don’t use Unix, so knowing how to kill a job may not be useful. However, some of y ...

The Unix Attitude 39 have the same name, namely “latex,” because they are all LaTeX jobs. Thus, “kill -9 latex” would be ambiguo ...

40 Welcome, New User! ...