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		Pxtl on April 22, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The sad state of sysadmin in the age of containers All the core unix tools have the problem of predating the vowel generation (http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?VowelGeneration).

bcoates on April 22, 2015 [–]

'grep' isn't a case of disemvowelment (there's an e!), it's just a weird mnemonic that's outlived its referent.

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