This is rather old, but still funny and perhaps helpful when learning some of the commands.<\/p>\n
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A is for awk, which runs like a snail, and
\nB is for biff, which reads all your mail.
\nC is for cc, as hackers recall, while
\nD is for dd, the command that does all.
\nE is for emacs, which rebinds your keys, and
\nF is for fsck, which rebuilds your trees.
\nG is for grep, a clever detective, while
\nH is for halt, which may seem defective.
\nI is for indent, which rarely amuses, and
\nJ is for join, which nobody uses.
\nK is for kill, which makes you the boss, while
\nL is for lex, which is missing from DOS.
\nM is for more, from which less was begot, and
\nN is for nice, which it really is not.
\nO is for od, which prints out things nice, while
\nP is for passwd, which reads in strings twice.
\nQ is for quota, a Berkeley-type fable, and
\nR is for ranlib, for sorting a table.
\nS is for spell, which attempts to belittle, while
\nT is for true, which does very little.
\nU is for uniq, which is used after sort, and
\nV is for vi, which is hard to abort.
\nW is for whoami, which tells you your name, while
\nX is, well, X, of dubious fame.
\nY is for yes, which makes an impression, and
\nZ is for zcat, which handles compression.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
This is rather old, but still funny and perhaps helpful when learning some of the commands. A is for awk, which runs like a snail, and B is for biff, which reads all your mail. C is for cc,…<\/p>\n