Commands like grep and awk are said aloud constantly in code reviews and pair programming. Saying 'AWK' instead of spelling it out marks you as someone who actually uses the terminal.
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How is the grep command correctly pronounced?
grep is pronounced 'GREP' — one syllable, hard G, rhymes with 'prep'. It stands for Global Regular Expression Print. The pronunciation is universally agreed upon in the community. In a technical interview: 'I use GREP with -r and -n flags to search for a string pattern across the whole codebase quickly.'
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How is the awk command correctly pronounced?
awk is pronounced 'AWK' — one syllable, rhymes with 'talk' and 'walk'. Named after its creators Aho, Weinberger, and Kernighan. A common mistake is saying each letter separately. In a technical interview: 'I pipe log lines through AWK to extract the third column and sum values in a one-liner.'
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How is the sed command correctly pronounced?
sed is pronounced 'SED' — one syllable, short E, rhymes with 'bed'. It stands for Stream EDitor. In a technical interview: 'I use SED with the -i flag to do an in-place find-and-replace across config files.'
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How is the curl command correctly pronounced?
curl is pronounced 'KURL' — one syllable, like the hairstyle or a bicep curl. It stands for Client URL. The single-syllable pronunciation is universal. In a technical interview: 'I test API endpoints with KURL using the -X flag for the method and -H for custom headers.'
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How is rsync correctly pronounced?
rsync is pronounced 'AR-sink' — two syllables, stress on the first. 'r' is said as the letter AR, 'sync' rhymes with 'sink'. It stands for Remote SYNC. In a technical interview: 'We use AR-sink with --delete and --checksum flags to deploy static assets to the server efficiently.'