UNIX is hot

I have a burning curiosity about UNIX, and have just begun tip-toeing through some online tutorials.

This started with me creating an off-site, password protected directory where I could back-up my essays from the past ten years. I've been living in happy gumdrop Mac land all this time, so my file-naming protocols have been... crappy. It looks like I managed to name some of my files with executable commands, which fudged up the whole matter.

Better than nothing, even so.

Then, last night was our household rsync night... I was using Confessor at the time, so G told me to open up Terminal and type "./.con [tab] [return]". Voila: Confessor is backed up! This lead to my first intro to UNIX... What does "dot" mean? What does "slash" mean? G took me up to "ls", "man", "rm", and "mv".

What's immediately obvious is the elegance of a minimum-keystroke language, and the nigh mathematical precision of how the architecture has been designed. Being a structural thinker, I gotta say: yum!

Really all I need is to learn the naming protocols of UNIX. But wow, this is juicy like reading a geometry textbook. (Which is to say, joo-say.)