[TUHS] rm command

Eric Blood winkywooster at gmail.com
Thu Apr 26 06:22:54 AEST 2018


I came across this yesterday:

> Fun fact: according to unsubstantiated UNIX lore, "rm" is NOT short-hand
> for "remove" but rather, it stands for the initials of the developer that wrote
> the original implementation, Robert Morris.
>
> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16916565

I was curious if there's any truth to it.  I found
http://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl and was poking around but
couldn't determine when the rm command came about.

Thoughts?

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Eric Blood
winkywooster at gmail.com



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