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Real examples here? (discuss.tchncs.de)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/programming

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Friend who is not a software person sent me this tweet, which amused me as it did them. They asked if "runk" was real, which I assume not.

But what are some good examples of real ones like this? xz became famous for the hack of course, so i then read a bit about how important this compression algorithm is/was.

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[–] runeko 52 points 2 months ago (10 children)

Pretty much every basic terminal command for linux. Grep is the one that comes to mind.

[–] riskable 25 points 2 months ago (9 children)

The modern man uses ripgrep 👍

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 months ago (4 children)

But it's three more letters. No deal.

[–] sudo 28 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Its going installed binary is rg.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

I shall begrudgingly consider it then, with much begrudgement.

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