[Klug-general] CLI command

MacGyveR macgyver at thedumbterminal.co.uk
Fri Feb 1 20:26:21 GMT 2008


On Friday 01 Feb 2008, Karl Lattimer wrote:
>
> which one?
>
> I've only ever seen it say sunos, solaris, irix, aix, and linux etc...?
>
> Windows doesn't have a uname command, I believe the etymology of it
> comes from "UNIX name" ;) I would be scared if MS included one, it would
> be like WTF day no.2, because it looks like MS are about to spend all
> their cash in the bank on yahoo (apparently they have about $50bn in
> actual money, and they're buying yahoo for something like $44bn), making
> them almost broke-ish but betting on beating google... So WTF day seems
> to be today, welcome to the twilight zone.
>
> Little known factoid of nonsense: the unix commands mv, cp etc... the
> two letter commands are two letters because they only took up 2 ascii
> bytes and could fit nicely into the processor registers (16bit) :)
>
> K,


does macos x have the uname command, if so what does it state? bsd?

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