Re: My way of remembering the nmcli initialism

2020-08-03 Thread Joe Zeff
On 08/03/2020 03:18 AM, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: My favorite is Common Unix Scanning System.  But they chose "sane" instead.  Huh.  I wonder what they do not like about "CUSS"? Legend has it that the File System ChecKer was originally the File Utility ChecKer until somebody had a sudden o

Re: My way of remembering the nmcli initialism

2020-08-03 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 8/3/20 2:18 AM, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: On 2020-08-02 23:39, Joe Zeff wrote: You mean Global Regular Expression search and Print? Holy crap!  Someone really wanted it to say GREP. "g", "re", "p" were/are the commands in the "ed" editor to search a file for regex and print the mat

Re: My way of remembering the nmcli initialism

2020-08-03 Thread Robert Nichols
On 8/3/20 6:15 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Mon, 2020-08-03 at 02:18 -0700, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: On 2020-08-02 23:39, Joe Zeff wrote: On 08/03/2020 12:24 AM, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: It never occurred to me for the longest time that that was what it was an initialism for. I

Re: My way of remembering the nmcli initialism

2020-08-03 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Mon, 2020-08-03 at 02:18 -0700, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > On 2020-08-02 23:39, Joe Zeff wrote: > > On 08/03/2020 12:24 AM, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > > > It never occurred to me for the longest time that > > > that was what it was an initialism for. I thought > > > is was some funny

Re: My way of remembering the nmcli initialism

2020-08-03 Thread Mauricio Tavares
On Mon, Aug 3, 2020 at 6:17 AM ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > > On 2020-08-02 23:39, Joe Zeff wrote: > > On 08/03/2020 12:24 AM, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > >> It never occurred to me for the longest time that > >> that was what it was an initialism for. I thought > >> is was some funny name

Re: My way of remembering the nmcli initialism

2020-08-03 Thread ToddAndMargo via users
On 2020-08-02 23:39, Joe Zeff wrote: On 08/03/2020 12:24 AM, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: It never occurred to me for the longest time that that was what it was an initialism for.  I thought is was some funny name like grep for the longest time. You mean Global Regular Expression search and P

Re: My way of remembering the nmcli initialism

2020-08-02 Thread Joe Zeff
On 08/03/2020 12:24 AM, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: It never occurred to me for the longest time that that was what it was an initialism for.  I thought is was some funny name like grep for the longest time. You mean Global Regular Expression search and Print?

Re: My way of remembering the nmcli initialism

2020-08-02 Thread ToddAndMargo via users
On 2020-08-02 20:58, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 8/2/20 6:29 PM, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: If you have trouble remembering the initialism "nmcli" like I do, this is my trick for remembering it: (N)etwork  (M)anager  (C)ommand  (L)ine  (I)nterface I find it hard to consider that a "trick" w

Re: My way of remembering the nmcli initialism

2020-08-02 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 8/2/20 6:29 PM, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: If you have trouble remembering the initialism "nmcli" like I do, this is my trick for remembering it:     (N)etwork  (M)anager  (C)ommand  (L)ine  (I)nterface I find it hard to consider that a "trick" when that is its actual name and purpose.

My way of remembering the nmcli initialism

2020-08-02 Thread ToddAndMargo via users
Hi All, If you have trouble remembering the initialism "nmcli" like I do, this is my trick for remembering it: (N)etwork (M)anager (C)ommand (L)ine (I)nterface :-) Now all I have to do is remember "Network Manager". :'( -T -- ~~ Computers are lik