"Phaedrus" <phaedrusalt@hotmail.com> a �crit dans le message news: Un5w6.1633$aP5.137062@newsread2.prod.itd.earthlink.net...
> I'm still hunting the ding-dong who first thought that "ls" was a good name for
> "dir" under Unix.)
>
A piece of history:
Under Multics, there were no "files"; everything was considered as memory "segments", some of which could be named (making the
equivalent of a file). You had therefore a command to List Segments: ls.

Unix was built after Multics (its name is actually a pun for a simpler Multics), and the name of the command was kept.

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