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[–] [email protected] 127 points 6 months ago (5 children)

I was shocked when I realized people pronounced it fs-tab lmao

[–] [email protected] 76 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (3 children)

Mentally I say Fs-tab because its filesystem table but if I ever say it out loud its f-stab

[–] [email protected] 22 points 6 months ago
[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago

Now that's insanity

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

I'm calling the authorities. All of them.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Oh shit. Does that stand for file system?

[–] [email protected] 39 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

*File System Table-stab

[–] [email protected] 27 points 6 months ago

I've never heard fs-tab in my life. Always f-stab. Hmmm...

[–] [email protected] 24 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Was the other way around for me. F-stab just makes no sense.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Idk its just how my brain decided to "chop up" the word if that makes sense

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Sure we can put that way lol

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

But it sure is memorable!

[–] mikyopii 104 points 6 months ago (2 children)

g-unzip?

gun-zip

I used this command way before I used gzip so I didn't put it together.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 6 months ago

gun-zip just rolls off the tongue better. Two syllables instead of three? Yes, please.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago

Gun Zip - you literally shoot the gz file and it explodes like a piñata of files all over the dir you gun zipped it in.

[–] [email protected] 82 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Ah yes, the file stabber, not to be confused with a file system tabulation, which it definitely is not.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 6 months ago

File stabber is a good name. :)

[–] [email protected] 65 points 6 months ago (1 children)

... it never occurred to me that it could be fs tab

[–] [email protected] 55 points 6 months ago

Go fsck yourself

[–] [email protected] 40 points 6 months ago

Know what it means. Still call it f stab.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 6 months ago (1 children)

F-stab easier to say and more fun to say

I'll die on this hill

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I'll defend this hill with you

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago

By stabbing

[–] [email protected] 31 points 6 months ago

It is what its always been. F stab

[–] [email protected] 30 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Mental outlaw said that and it just stayed in my head ever since. Just like /etc is 'etsy'.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 6 months ago (4 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago
[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago

SQL has always been Skull in my head. I think it is because I hated it when in college and associated it with dying inside.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

Not sequel?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

Though I know it means "et cetera" when reading my brain has always "heard" that word - whether in the context of the word "etc." or the computing /etc - as pronounced "ettick." As in, "you need to edit your ettick f-stab file."

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (2 children)

How else would you say /etc ?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Echo Tango Charlie

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 6 months ago

Shit, just say f-stab and enjoy someone "correcting" you, only to smile and continue to say it that way.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 6 months ago

It took me a lot longer than I'd like to admit to realize that it was FS Tab.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 6 months ago (2 children)

f stab is real shit bro

fs tab is for losers.

real men say et-see, not etcetera.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 months ago

TIL, I had no clue why we call this arbitrary important file a file stab, but fs tab makes sense now. F stab is more fun to say though (but has probably confused more than just me)

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago

I think I might be the third option: f'ss-tab.

Couldn't tell you where that's from. When I first ran Linux, the year didn't start with a 2.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago

This meme fscks

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

it's tune-2fs, right

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

and before that, get the drive name from the "black kid".

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