Newsgroup: alt.folklore.computers

In article <E?bgx?1@cs.psu.edu> ian@theory.cs.psu.edu (Ian Parberry) writes:
>Has anybody else noticed that Unix commands by themselves are candidates
>for fun?  Try saying these commands quickly:
>
>man date
>catman du
>
>Only valid Unix commands that use system software and files are eligible.
>Commands that include user programs and files are not.  (For example,
>if a user has an unlikely file named onic, (s)he could legitimately type
>"more onic".  This is too easy.)

Here is a list of words that can be created by joining two commands
from /bin /usr/bin /usr/ucb /etc /usr/etc /usr/new/bin on a Sun
and checking against /usr/dict/words.  The program to create the
list was hacked in an idle afternoon.  Many thanks to Nikos Doukas
who came up with the idea for an efficient search technique.

I have not separated the words in their components on purpose.  Have
fun trying to find out.

ace acid are arid ate attest bare baron colon common crone cue cute
cutset dateline diffident formate headline headwall linear lineman
loggerhead mandate mane ode one pace prod quote said saline sash saw
sharp she shed shod stripe sue sumac swine tartar trident trod vie visa

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