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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>Unix weenie</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../U.html" title="U"/><link rel="previous" href="Unix-conspiracy.html" title="Unix conspiracy"/><link rel="next" href="unixism.html" title="unixism"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Unix weenie</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Unix-conspiracy.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">U</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="unixism.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="Unix-weenie"/><dt xmlns="" id="Unix-weenie"><b>Unix weenie</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [ITS] </p></dd><dd><p> 1. A derogatory play on ‘Unix wizard’, common among
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hackers who use Unix by necessity but would prefer alternatives. The
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implication is that although the person in question may consider mastery of
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Unix arcana to be a wizardly skill, the only real skill involved is the
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ability to tolerate (and the bad taste to wallow in) the incoherence and
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needless complexity that is alleged to infest many Unix programs.
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“<span class="quote">This shell script tries to parse its arguments in 69 bletcherous
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ways. It must have been written by a real Unix weenie.</span>” </p></dd><dd><p> 2. A derogatory term for anyone who engages in uncritical praise of
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Unix. Often appearing in the context “<span class="quote">stupid Unix weenie</span>”.
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See <a href="../W/Weenix.html"><i class="glossterm">Weenix</i></a>, <a href="Unix-conspiracy.html"><i class="glossterm">Unix conspiracy</i></a>.
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See also <a href="../W/weenie.html"><i class="glossterm">weenie</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Unix-conspiracy.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../U.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="unixism.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">Unix conspiracy </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> unixism</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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