On 30/03/16 02:19 PM, Ivan Avery Frey wrote: > In Debian useradd and userdel are low level utilities and their man > pages recommend that administrators use adduser and deluser. > > I've found a way to differentiate between the low level utilities and > the recommended ones. > > The low level utilities use "Latin" order where the verb component > comes after the object and the recommended commands the other way around. > > So the recommended commands' syllables' order matches that of our > everyday language while the low level utilities' syllables' order > matches that of a "dead" language. >
Quod erat demonstrandum, eh Ivan? Beats going to the man pages every time I need one of them ;-) CHeers, Mik
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