etc?

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someone told me the /etc doesn't mean et cetera; is this true?

[garskoci]

As in 'etsee'. Don't know the origin though.

[Strogian]

Did he tell you what it *did* stand for?

[sploo22]

Possibilities:

Extremely Technical Configuration

Everything here, when Tinkered with, Collapses

Erase This Crud (especially /etc/inittab :D)

;)

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yea, he told me what it stands for, he said it stands for etsee, like garskoci said. what does etsee mean?

[El_Cu_Guy]

what does etsee mean?

It does MEAN anything. It's a silly pornounciation of the letters ET C

[DMR]

Originally posted by El_Cu_Guy
It does MEAN anything. It's a silly pornounciation of the letters ET C Right. /etc is a contraction of et cetera. The "etcee" is just a weird UNIX pronounciation thing, somewhat similar to the fact that you pronounce the "d" at the end of a daemon's filename as "dee" (the "named" daemon, for example, is pronounced "name-dee").

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ooooooooooooooooooo

[Alex Cavnar, aka alc6379]

Originally posted by DMR
Right. /etc is a contraction of et cetera. The "etcee" is just a weird UNIX pronounciation thing, somewhat similar to the fact that you pronounce the "d" at the end of a daemon's filename as "dee" (the "named" daemon, for example, is pronounced "name-dee").

Would I be spurned by UNIX purists if I refused to say "et-see"? Until my recent Advanced UNIX class, I'd never heard it called that. I'd always just said "et-cetera" or if the person was unlikely to catch that, I'd say "e-t-c". Frankly, I don't care if I'm not "hip to the jive" on a subject like this, but is "et-see" really the standard accepted pronunciation of /etc?

[DMR]

Originally posted by Alex Cavnar, aka alc6379
but is "et-see" really the standard accepted pronunciation of /etc? http://h0050ba3f874e.ne.client2.attbi.com/unix.shtml

:D

[Icarus]

Originally posted by Alex Cavnar, aka alc6379
Would I be spurned by UNIX purists if I refused to say "et-see"? Until my recent Advanced UNIX class, I'd never heard it called that. I'd always just said "et-cetera" or if the person was unlikely to catch that, I'd say "e-t-c". Frankly, I don't care if I'm not "hip to the jive" on a subject like this, but is "et-see" really the standard accepted pronunciation of /etc? If you don't call it et-c when working with tech support...you will get LOTS of odd looks and probally won't get any help as 'that is a non-standard directory':)

[Alex Cavnar, aka alc6379]

Originally posted by mahdi
If you don't call it et-c when working with tech support...you will get LOTS of odd looks and probally won't get any help as 'that is a non-standard directory':)

Well... if you put it that way, I'll make it a point to say et-see around other tech folks.

But I still think that it sounds dumb...

[serz]

Blah guys. et-see, et-cetera or et-c is just the sameee :o I said.

[terribleRobbo]

Heck, I say 'sudo' as 'pseudo'.

User = /usr?
Etcetera = /etc?


By the way, wouldn't 'Daemon' be pronounced as 'Dye-mon' (latin and all)? :-S

[hop-frog]

SuSE is one I don't see on that list.

[Alex Cavnar, aka alc6379]

Originally posted by hop-frog
SuSE is one I don't see on that list.

I always thought it was pronounced "Sews-eh", as the trailing "E" in German is normally pronounced.