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[–] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

That's what I've always known it as

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    I mean it’s basically the same thing but the command itself means “print”; it’s a damn old command and it probably predates using screens for terminals (used to be printers); which is why all the parts of Linux (ugh, and GNU of course) that came from Unix ideas came from that age.

    You literally sat in front of a typewriter that would respond to you. Wild.

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