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If chown can change groups, why was chgrp created?

History of Bash globbing

Why BitchX is called BitchX?

Why are tar archive formats switching to xz compression to replace bzip2 and what about gzip?

Does Linux use original Unix code or do they share the idea?

Why is the root directory denoted by a / sign?

Why does no one use the true Bourne shell as /bin/sh?

/usr/bin/ptx: Can you provide a use case or two?

What's the story behind Super Cow Powers?

What is the purpose of the hash command?