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It's also, in my opinion, the most verb-able of all *NIX commands.
Yeah I’ve told someone to grep something despite knowing they had a windows server
I don't know, rm being short for "remove" is very verbaceous.
Oh go fsck yourself (maybe that works better written...).
Verbaceous is a great word. I'm adding it onto my "favourite words" list ,(even if it isn't technically a word "
Ah, pshaw, I don't subscribe to the notion that there's such a thing as "not a word." Why bother having a system of root words, prefixes and suffixes if we're not allowed to use that system to build the words we need? Especially for the fun of it. Verbaceous is adjectivacular.