Abbott and Costello Learn Unix

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Costello calls Abbott with some questions about UNIX: Costello: What is the command that will tell me the revision code of a program? Abbott: Yes, that's correct. Costello: No, what is it? Abbott: Yes. Costello: So, which is the one? Abbott: No. 'which' is used to find the program. Costello: Stop this. Who are you? Abbott: Use 'who am i' not 'who r yoo'. You can also 'finger yoo' to get information about 'yoo'. Costello: All I want to know is what finds the revision code? Abbott: Use 'what'. Costello: That's what I am trying to find out. Isn't that true? Abbott: No. 'true' gives you 0. Costello: Which one? Abbott: 'true' gives you 0. 'which programname' Costello: Let's get back to my problem. What program? How do I find it? Abbott: Type 'find / -name it -print' to find 'it'. Type 'what program' to get the revision code. Costello: I want to find the revision code. Abbott: You can't 'find revisioncode', you must use 'what program'. Costello: Which command will do what I need? Abbott: No. 'which command' will find 'command'. Costello: I think I understand. Let me write that. Abbott: You can 'write that' only if 'that' is a user on your system. Costello: Write what? Abbott: No. 'write that'. 'what program'. Costello: Cut that out! Abbott: Yes. those are valid files for 'cut'. Don't forget the options. Costello: Do you always do this? Abbott: 'du' will give you disk usage. Costello: HELP! Abbott: 'help' is only used for Source Code Control System (SCCS). Costello: You make me angry. Abbott: No, I don't 'make me' angry but I did 'make programname' when I was upset once. Costello: I don't want to make trouble, so no more. Abbott: No 'more'? 'which' will help you find 'more'. Every system has 'more'. Costello: Nice help! I'm confused more now! Abbott: Understand that since 'help' is such a small program, it is better not to 'nice help'. and 'more now' is not allowed but 'at now' is. Unless of course 'now' is a file name. Costello: This is almost as confusing as my PC. Abbott: I didn't know you needed help with 'pc'. Let me get you to the Pascal compiler team.

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