• Slashme@lemmy.world
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    unzip, strip, touch, finger, mount, fsck, more, yes, fsck, fsck, fsck, umount, sleep

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      I don’t think it’s actually meant to be a sequence of commands as much as each set of commands do the same things. I think the “->” is a delimiter that unfortunately makes one think this is some sort of flowchart, which it is not. The flow of both don’t really make sense, but each command, in order, maps to the others. Unzip = Extract. Touch = Create. Mount = Assign.

      The joke really is as simple as the Linux commands all sound vaguely sexual and thus aren’t very appropriate for a workplace, whereas the Windows commands are named professionally.

      The odd use of the “->” just distracts from that, they could have used a “/” or any other delimiter and it might have been a little clearer.