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2. There is a command called "tunefs" to tune a file system. The command "man [command]"

Reply to AllaN01Bear (Original post)

Tue Aug 22, 2023, 09:17 PM

Aug 2023

would give you a manual page on the command. In the old Unix days (Berkeley BSD 4 Unix), when you typed "man tunefs", one of the things it printed out on your screen was "You can tune a file system but you can't tuna fish". I believe they took that out in later years because it wasn't "professional".

The "make" command builds programs. Now, if you type "make love", you get:

$ make love
make: *** No rule to make target 'love'. Stop.

but in the old days it said "I don't know how to make love. Stop"

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i just downloaded a basic list of commands for linux. [View all] AllaN01Bear Aug 2023 OP

Probably this one: usonian Aug 2023 #1

Solaris killall is the odd one; MacOs, FreeBSD, GNU/Linux are pretty much the same Hermit-The-Prog Sep 2023 #5

There is a command called "tunefs" to tune a file system. The command "man [command]" Wonder Why Aug 2023 #2

Linux Mistermike Aug 2023 #3

Try top Hermit-The-Prog Sep 2023 #4