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Re:The sad state of sysadmin in the age of containers by Pxtl on Wednesday April 22, 2015 @11:46AM (#9421248)
All the core unix tools have the problem of predating the vowel generation (http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?VowelGeneration).
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Re:The sad state of sysadmin in the age of containers by bcoates on Wednesday April 22, 2015 @01:38PM (#9422077)
'grep' isn't a case of disemvowelment (there's an e!), it's just a weird mnemonic that's outlived its referent.
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