What's your mnemonic for pwd?- OMG it means print working directory. My mind instantly goes to password every time. I had to reach puddle wuv dud levels of autism before thinking otherwise. I shame my
On a side note:
I hate it that the password-change command is minimally abbreviated to "passwd".
Come on, making it much more complicated to remember and saving just two freakin letters??
But the only command that I have to look up everydamntime, although it has no abbreviation at all, is useradd.
Oh no, wait, I mean adduser!
... No, wait again... aah...
All the worse that Debian has both useradd and adduser. I never remember which is the one I want. And in Redhat-derivatives it’s something even more confusing.
The only thing I ever want to do is add a user to a group, is that too much to ask?
adduser is an interactive wrapper for useradd. It can, for example, prompt the user to set a password rather than execute passwd separately. Very useful if you just want to manage a user without reading through useradd's command line options, then running usermod because you forgot to set something.
It doesn't excuse the bad naming, I'd rather have something like useradd --interactive, but it's worth remembering.
Sure I do (although nowadays Strg-r does most of the heavy lifting for me), but as a decent touch-typist I am often faster directly typing short commands, like passwor... damn, I mean: passwd ;-)
I mean it’s basically the same thing but the command itself means “print”; it’s a damn old command and it probably predates using screens for terminals (used to be printers); which is why all the parts of Linux (ugh, and GNU of course) that came from Unix ideas came from that age.
You literally sat in front of a typewriter that would respond to you. Wild.
It absolutely can be either and is not so clear cut as responders are claiming.
Weather its 'print working directory' or 'present working directory' depends on the source you ask, and ultimately they have the same meaning so it really doesn't matter which you use.
Whenever pwd is used as a variable, 'present' is more logical than 'print'.
My kryptonite is du which reports disk usage, and df which reports disk file size, or no, wait, du is file size and df is disk usage.
Most of the time I can only remember whichever one I don't need at the moment and futilely hope that its man page will mention the other (which it doesn't).
Pretty sure it refers to a clip of the "intellectual" Ben Shapiro being afraid to say the word "pussy" when reading through the lyrics of the song and making misogynistic comments about it
I usually abbreviate these "in German" in my head. Esp. handy if there's a freaking double-U in it, which is just one syllable in German. Exception: /etc = Etsy
You might be right.
I am German and never had a problem with pwd... The "double-you" certainly breaks some easy phonetic connections you would otherwise just make...
My mnemonic is a bit weird, purrent working directory. I know the term cwd (current working directory) but I never bothered to learn what the p stands for, so I named it myself as purrent.
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Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de · 69 pts · 335d
On a side note:
I hate it that the password-change command is minimally abbreviated to "passwd".
Come on, making it much more complicated to remember and saving just two freakin letters??
schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de · 74 pts · 335d
"umount" is worse
Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de · 37 pts · 335d
But the only command that I have to look up every damn time, although it has no abbreviation at all, is useradd.
Oh no, wait, I mean adduser!
... No, wait again... aah...
betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world · 35 pts · 335d
Next update changes it to usadder as a compromise. Supposedly, it's short for "user adder" but we all know it's to make "[you] sadder".
Hawke@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 335d
All the worse that Debian has both useradd and adduser. I never remember which is the one I want. And in Redhat-derivatives it’s something even more confusing.
The only thing I ever want to do is add a user to a group, is that too much to ask?
rtxn@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 335d
adduseris an interactive wrapper foruseradd. It can, for example, prompt the user to set a password rather than executepasswdseparately. Very useful if you just want to manage a user without reading throughuseradd's command line options, then runningusermodbecause you forgot to set something.It doesn't excuse the bad naming, I'd rather have something like
useradd --interactive, but it's worth remembering.ozymandias117@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 335d
You'd want
usermodfor that, no? If the user already exists and you're just modifying their groups?mittorn@masturbated.one · 2 pts · 335d
@ozymandias117 @Hawke why not gpasswd?
kattfisk@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 335d
Ah, damn it! I'll look it up next time. *sudo vim /etc/passwd*
Ghoelian@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 335d
Surely
visudo, I hopeuranibaba@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 335d
First time I have to use it, the spelling really confused me. Wrote unmount and didn’t understand why it didn’t work.
Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de · 4 pts · 335d
I guess this also must be an additional layer of hellfire for dyslexics...
bacon_pdp@lemmy.world · 37 pts · 335d
Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de · 15 pts · 335d
Now this looks like an interesting read. Thanks!
Hawke@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 335d
Kinda, but it’s pretty much all horrendously outdated bitching about superficial flaws in tools from 40 years ago.
abcdqfr@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 335d
I SAID, pass the wood
kibiz0r@midwest.social · 11 pts · 335d
It’s the passw daemon
tal@lemmy.today · 4 pts · 335d
Do you not tab-complete your commands? I mean, my terminal usage for anything beyond very short commands consists of .
Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de · 2 pts · 335d
Sure I do (although nowadays Strg-r does most of the heavy lifting for me), but as a decent touch-typist I am often faster directly typing short commands, like passwor... damn, I mean: passwd ;-)
Danitos@reddthat.com · 2 pts · 335d
If you haven't, give fzf a try. Is like Ctrl+r in asteroids
A_norny_mousse@feddit.org · 4 pts · 335d
🤷 that's why we have ls, rm, mv and hell, even w.
To confuse things even more there's a utility called pwgen and I can never remember which two letters to type before hitting autocomplete.
diemartin@sh.itjust.works · 11 pts · 335d
mv = move, thus:
A_norny_mousse@feddit.org · 7 pts · 335d
That is so cool.
So
I could do this all day.
cobwoms@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 26 pts · 335d
isn't it just 'present working directory'?
Hawke@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 335d
No. “Print working directory” is the command to print (display) the “cwd” (current working directory).
LaggyKar@programming.dev · 6 pts · 335d
I find it weird when you get "pwd" as a variable
Hawke@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 335d
Kinda yeah, but I think that just comes from storing the output of the PWD command.
The system call that returns that value is called getcwd().
ozymandias117@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 335d
It's 'print current directory' in the source code:
https://github.com/coreutils/coreutils/blob/42c4578b49afaf3dc8de884262f34e4a19066860/src/pwd.c#L1
ruuster13@lemmy.zip · 7 pts · 335d
You "print" to standard output, which is the terminal.
tal@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 335d
Unless you're old-school and using a teletype as your terminal and actually printing it.
Stillwater@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 335d
This is what it is at least in my head
clif@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 335d
In my head too. We can share though.
Deconceptualist@leminal.space · 5 pts · 335d
That's what I've always known it as
4am@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 335d
I mean it’s basically the same thing but the command itself means “print”; it’s a damn old command and it probably predates using screens for terminals (used to be printers); which is why all the parts of Linux (ugh, and GNU of course) that came from Unix ideas came from that age.
You literally sat in front of a typewriter that would respond to you. Wild.
ButWhatDoesItAllMean@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 335d
Welp, I always thought path-to-working-directory like to get the full path
pulsewidth@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 334d
It absolutely can be either and is not so clear cut as responders are claiming.
Weather its 'print working directory' or 'present working directory' depends on the source you ask, and ultimately they have the same meaning so it really doesn't matter which you use.
Whenever pwd is used as a variable, 'present' is more logical than 'print'.
https://qmacro.org/blog/posts/2020/11/08/the-myriad-meanings-of-pwd-in-unix-systems/
kattfisk@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 15 pts · 335d
My kryptonite is
duwhich reports disk usage, anddfwhich reports disk file size, or no, wait,duis file size anddfis disk usage.Most of the time I can only remember whichever one I don't need at the moment and futilely hope that its man page will mention the other (which it doesn't).
umbraroze@slrpnk.net · 7 pts · 335d
I'm always like "
dushows disk usage of files, anddfshows how much of disk is free".megaman@discuss.tchncs.de · 1 pts · 333d
I just try them both every time
StrixUralensis@tarte.nuage-libre.fr · 15 pts · 335d
pwned
Lembot_0004@discuss.online · 11 pts · 335d
abcdqfr@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 335d
alias 'where_the_fuck_am_i'="pwd"
potoo22@programming.dev · 21 pts · 335d
alias who_the_fuck_am_i='whoami'somerandomperson@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 19 pts · 335d
alias what_the_hell_is_going_on='btop'DrWorm@piefed.social · 12 pts · 335d
alias who_the_fuck_is_that=fingercupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone · 8 pts · 335d
alias finger_me='finger $USER'NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de · 16 pts · 335d
What the hell is wrong with all of you? Command names obviously use
-and not_Limitless_screaming@kbin.earth · 8 pts · 335d
alias _='-'
somerandomperson@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 335d
alias too_late='echo 😛'mittorn@masturbated.one · 0 pts · 335d
@cupcakezealot @DrWorm https://www.reddit.com/r/meirl/comments/1i8dre3/meirl/
zxqwas@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 335d
Unfortunately all the 2, 3 and 4 letter combinations are used as an alias for when i mistype "ls"
threeonefour@piefed.ca · 9 pts · 335d
I thought it meant p-word. As in "wet ass p-word"
fushuan@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 9 pts · 335d
You are allowed to say pussy on the internet. Cats did nothing wrong.
SirSamuel@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 335d
"If cats looked like frogs we'd realize what nasty, cruel little bastards they are."
okr765@lemmy.okr765.com · 1 pts · 334d
Ah yes, everyone knows how "pwd" looks like "pussy" and definitely not "p-word".
fushuan@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 334d
I think you missed the WAP aka wet ass pussy song title reference in their "wet ass p-word".
okr765@lemmy.okr765.com · 3 pts · 334d
Pretty sure it refers to a clip of the "intellectual" Ben Shapiro being afraid to say the word "pussy" when reading through the lyrics of the song and making misogynistic comments about it
fushuan@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 334d
Okay, so you did get the wordplay between pwd, pussy, and p-word in the comment.
Unless I'm really slow and I missed another joke I don't get your complaint on my joke response, sorry.
A_norny_mousse@feddit.org · 5 pts · 335d
I usually abbreviate these "in German" in my head. Esp. handy if there's a freaking double-U in it, which is just one syllable in German. Exception: /etc = Etsy
4am@lemmy.zip · 9 pts · 335d
I’m still not over the fact that /etc isn’t for et cetera
EDIT: turns out that it is, and that there’s a lot of dumbasses on the internet “teaching”
Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de · 4 pts · 335d
You might be right.
I am German and never had a problem with pwd... The "double-you" certainly breaks some easy phonetic connections you would otherwise just make...
pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 335d
I always called it Present Working Directory but apparently it's Print
bigfondue@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 335d
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 335d
I pronounce it pwood.
Revan343@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 335d
Pwud here
callyral@pawb.social · 3 pts · 334d
puh-wuh-duh
DrunkAnRoot@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 334d
pizza with dick is how i reamber it
rikudou@lemmings.world · 2 pts · 308d
My mnemonic is a bit weird, purrent working directory. I know the term cwd (current working directory) but I never bothered to learn what the p stands for, so I named it myself as purrent.
lIlIllIlIIIllIlIlII@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 335d
I use muscle memory.
bitwolf@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 335d
I use it both for password and
pwdinterchangeablypossiblylinux127@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 335d
Sir this is Wendy's