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Pipe Viewer – A Unix Utility You Should Know About

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236 points lnyan | 3 comments | 20 Nov 24 15:09 UTC | HN request time: 0.841s | source
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darkwater ◴[20 Nov 24 22:03 UTC] No.42198575[source]▶
Pipe viewer? What's that? Let me check the post...oh, it's good old pv! Never noticed it had a full name, damn Unix utilities with their short names!
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1. fuzztester ◴[20 Nov 24 22:22 UTC] No.42198740[source]▶
There is a shell built-in called alias.

You can use it to map the short name to the long name if you prefer, although people usually do it the other way around, to save on typing.

;)

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2. remram ◴[21 Nov 24 03:54 UTC] No.42200938[source]▶
I didn't understand, how would that help with discovering the full name of "pv"?
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3. fuzztester ◴[22 Nov 24 23:28 UTC] No.42218215[source]▶
it wouldn't. it was a joke.