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say
vt. 1. To type to a terminal. To list a directory verbosely, you have to say ls -l. Tends to imply a newline -terminated command (a sentence ). 2. A computer may also be said to say things to you, even if it doesn't have a speech synthesizer, by displaying them on a terminal in response to your commands. Hackers find it odd that this usage confuses mundane s.