UNIX was created back in the day when we couldn't afford vowels, and many consonants. So common commands had to be shortened a little bit:
"Copy" becomes "cp"
"List" becomes "ls"
"Rename" becomes "mv" and so on.
But fear not. Soon systemd will restore the balance with long command names again. This is 2024 and 70's okay?
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