Arcane by today's standards I guess.
Also, many people in those days never consulted the docs and just memorized commands without understanding them so they probably felt arcane.
Also, many people in those days never consulted the docs and just memorized commands without understanding them so they probably felt arcane.
your point about those who copypasta-ed command incantations is reasonable, but they did get them from people who knew how to write them and conditions (like situational pathnames or dangerousness of side effects) are sufficiently variable to limit the scope of this style's applicability