User:Erbingha/ABC's

• A is for awk, which runs like a snail, and
• B is for biff, which reads all your mail.
• C is for cc, as hackers recall, while
• D is for dd, the command that does all.
• E is for emacs, which rebinds your keys, and
• F is for fsck, which rebuilds your trees.
• G is for grep, a clever detective, while
• H is for halt, which may seem defective.
• I is for indent, which rarely amuses, and
• J is for join, which nobody uses.
• K is for kill, which makes you the boss, while
• L is for lex, which is missing from DOS.
• M is for more, from which less was begot, and
• N is for nice, which it really is not.
• O is for od, which prints out things nice, while
• P is for passwd, which reads in strings twice.
• Q is for quota, a Berkeley-type fable, and
• R is for ranlib, for sorting ar table.
• S is for spell, which attempts to belittle, while
• T is for true, which does very little.
• U is for uniq, which is used after sort, and
• V is for vi, which is hard to abort.
• W is for whoami, which tells you your name, while
• X is, well, X, of dubious fame.
• Y is for yes, which makes an impression, and
• Z is for zcat, which handles compression.

-Submitted by Margaret Hudacko-