But the only command that I have to look up every damn time, although it has no abbreviation at all, is useradd.
Oh no, wait, I mean adduser!
... No, wait again... aah...

First time I have to use it, the spelling really confused me. Wrote unmount and didn’t understand why it didn’t work.

Do you not tab-complete your commands?

Sure I do (although nowadays Strg-r does most of the heavy lifting for me), but as a decent touch-typist I am often faster directly typing short commands, like passwor... damn, I mean: passwd ;-)

I find it weird when you get "pwd" as a variable

In my head too. We can share though.

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.

Unless you're old-school and using a teletype as your terminal and actually printing it.

"If cats looked like frogs we'd realize what nasty, cruel little bastards they are."

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Ah yes, everyone knows how "pwd" looks like "pussy" and definitely not "p-word".