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- A customer calls a UNIX consultant with a question:
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- Customer: What is the command that will tell me the revision code of a
- program?
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- UNIX consul: Yes, that's correct.
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- Customer: No, what is it ?
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- UNIX consul: Yes.
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- Customer: So, which is the one ?
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- UNIX consul: No. 'which' is used to find the program.
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- Customer: Stop this. Who are you ?
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- UNIX consul: Use 'who am i' not 'who r yoo'. You can also 'finger yoo'
- to get information about yoo'.
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- Customer: All I want to know is what finds the revision code ?
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- UNIX consul: Use 'what'.
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- Customer: That's what I am trying to find out. Isn't that true ?
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- UNIX consul: No. 'true' gives you 0.
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- Customer: Which one ?
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- UNIX consul: 'true' gives you 0. 'which programname'
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- Customer: Let's get back to my problem. What program? How do I find it?
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- UNIX consul: Type 'find / -name it -print' to find 'it'. Type 'what
- program' to get the revision code.
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- Customer: I want to find the revision code.
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- UNIX consul: You can't 'find revisioncode', you must use 'what program'.
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- Customer: Which command will do what I need?
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- UNIX consul: No. 'which command' will find 'command'.
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- Customer: I think I understand. Let me write that.
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- UNIX consul: You can 'write that' only if 'that' is a user on your
- system.
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- Customer: Write what?
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- UNIX consul: No. 'write that'. 'what program'.
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- Customer: Cut that out!
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- UNIX consul: Yes. those are valid files for 'cut'. Don't forget the
- options.
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- Customer: Do you always do this ?
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- UNIX consul: 'du' will give you disk usage.
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- Customer: HELP!
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- UNIX consul: 'help' is only used for Source Code Control System (SCCS).
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- Customer: You make me angry.
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- UNIX consul: No, I don't 'make me' angry but I did 'make programname'
- when I was upset once.
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- Customer: I don't want to make trouble, so no more.
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- UNIX consul: No 'more'? 'which' will help you find 'more'. Every system
- has 'more'.
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- Customer: Nice help! I'm confused more now!
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- UNIX consul: Understand that since 'help' is such a small program, it is
- better not to 'nice help'. and 'more now' is not allowed but 'at now'
- is. Unless of course 'now' is a file name.
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- Customer: This is almost as confusing as my PC.
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- UNIX consul: I didn't know you needed help with 'pc'. Let me get you to
- the Pascal compiler team.
-