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lemmy.world

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

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

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swg-empire.de

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

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feddit.de

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

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programming.dev

g-unzip?

gun-zip

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

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

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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.

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lemm.ee

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

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fedia.io

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

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lemmy.world

F-stab easier to say and more fun to say

I'll die on this hill

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lemmy.world

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

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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.

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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."

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

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et-see is the objectively correct version, ee-tee-see is the marginally more correct, but less funny version of it. And etcetera is just illegal, you should be jailed if you ever say that.

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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)

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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.

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I always pronounce it "fezzik" like Andre the Giant's character from The Princess Bride.

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