Very interesting. As a note, my daughter around age 3, always made me reboot the laptop as she liked the white on blue scrolling (she actually clapped as the lines scrolled by). I have done it 10 to 12 times at a stretch. Her next step was to make me login and type on the keyboard randomly and get amused as it made beeping noises as well as spew something back at her (she termed it as "working" on the laptop).
Liked the list though. Thanks. -ag -- sent via 100% recycled electrons from my mobile command center. On Feb 2, 2013, at 1:59 PM, Chris Hettrick <ch...@populatealltheresistors.com> wrote: > Hi Misc, > > I made a list of the most classical UNIX commands / utilities from section > one where there is only one per letter of the english alphabet (it's for my > OpenBSD obsessed five year old son :) ). I know that this subject is very > personal and steeped in tradition and history, so I was looking for your > opinions and suggestions. > A quick note about the list: some hard choices were made concerning letters > such as c, p, m, etc. For instance, kill(1) is not included for two reasons: > it is included in the shell, and it needs ps(1) to be properly used (which > conflicts with pwd(1) which I think is _more_ useful for a UNIX beginner). > mv(1) was not included because a cp(1) and rm(1) can suffice. > > This is the list: > > awk > bc > cp > date > echo > find > grep > head > id > jot > ksh (as a superset of sh) > ls > more > nc > od > pwd > quota > rm > sort > tail > uniq > vi > wc > xargs > yes > zcat > > Any opinions, suggestions? > Thanks! > > Chris
