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finger is the best-named utility of the Unix world.


Second place is Cat


Don't forget head, tail, mount, strip, touch, etc.

My GF when I was first learning these names was convinced the Unix principals did all this quite deliberately and "finger" was her headliner argument. Evidently, even in 1971 someone complained: https://blog.robertelder.org/intro-to-pinky-command/ (relevant to that source, Usenet/Net News/mailing lists may be another social network which never exactly died and even today LKML, zsh-workers, etc. are main communication avenues).


I rather enjoy the derivative name tac as well, and I suppose you can count GNU tools to be in the Unix world.




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