Re: Interpretation of extensions different from Unix/Linux?

[Hyman Rosen <hyrosen@mail.com>]

Robert A Duff wrote:
> Because it's stupid.  ;-)

Isn't it a little late in the day to be arguing about
UNIX command-line tools? The 'grep' command has been
around since 1973, so it predates Ada by a number of
years. <http://www.columbia.edu/~rh120/ch001j.c11>

Anyway, the notion that meaningful names would be
better by some metric needs to be tested, not just
assumed. After all, a more rationally named 'grep'
might be called 'find', 'search', 'lookfor', 'probe',
'examine', 'locate', and a thesaurus-full of other
words. Any of these might be a program which searches
for files by name, rather than for files containing
such content. Perhaps the command does both, as in
the Windows graphical search facility.

In the end, you have to learn what you need to know,
and then you just know it.