[GTALUG] Debian user[add|del] and [add|del]user

[El Fontanero]

On 30/03/16 02:19 PM, Ivan Avery Frey wrote:
> In Debian useradd and userdel are low level utilities and their man
> pages recommend that administrators use adduser and deluser.
>
> I've found a way to differentiate between the low level utilities and
> the recommended ones.
>
> The low level utilities use "Latin" order where the verb component
> comes after the object and the recommended commands the other way around.
>
> So the recommended commands' syllables' order matches that of our
> everyday language while the low level utilities' syllables' order
> matches that of a "dead" language.
>

Quod erat demonstrandum, eh Ivan?

Beats going to the man pages every time I need one of them ;-)

CHeers,
Mik
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