Documented but un-obvious UNIX tricks

[Michael "Ford" Ditto]

In article <8504 at cbmvax.UUCP> I wrote:
>The "trick" of ls looking at its invocation name was present and
>documented in 7th edition Unix, and is still in BSD.

In article <11381 at cbnews.ATT.COM> mark at cblpf.ATT.COM (Mark Horton) writes:
>I can confirm most of this, except that it wasn't in V7.

Hmm.  I just remembered that the V7 system I used was actually "TNIX"
(V7 + a very few enhancements on a Tektronix LSI 11/23 system), so I'll
take Mark's word for it.
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