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1. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Tuesday, 30-Nov-2021 08:50:43 EST clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

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   1. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Tuesday, 30-Nov-2021 08:58:24 EST clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

      in reply to
      cat conCATenates files
      tac is cat backwards
      tr transforms or text-replaces
      cut cuts
      dd ... now this one deserves two full articles, one for the name, which goes back to IBM mainframes (hello @Jason_Dodd ), one for the unusual parameter format
      
      tee – I'd like to hear about this one
      1. Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp) (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Tuesday, 30-Nov-2021 09:45:53 EST Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp)

         in reply to
         tee: think of a capital T, a T-shirt, rotated 90 degrees clockwise. data comes in from the left, the opening for the body, gets duplicated and comes out from both sleeves