25 Apr
2018
25 Apr
'18
11:33 p.m.
Another country heard from.
<http://www.tldp.org/LDP/LG/issue49/fischer.html> I doubt the Robert Morris
story, given that a command as fundamental as "rm" must have come about
very early in the development, and there isn't a pattern of naming commands
after their authors.
On Wed, Apr 25, 2018 at 1:22 PM, Eric Blood <winkywooster(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I came across this yesterday:
Fun fact: according to unsubstantiated UNIX lore,
"rm" is NOT short-hand
for "remove" but rather, it stands for the initials of the developer
that wrote
the original implementation, Robert Morris.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16916565
I was curious if there's any truth to it. I found
http://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl and was poking around but
couldn't determine when the rm command came about.
Thoughts?
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Eric Blood
winkywooster(a)gmail.com