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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>say</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="../S.html" title="S"/><link rel="previous" href="Saturday-night-special.html" title="Saturday-night special"/><link rel="next" href="scag.html" title="scag"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">say</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Saturday-night-special.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">S</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="scag.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="say"/><dt xmlns="" id="say"><b>say</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">vt.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> 1. To type to a terminal. “<span class="quote">To list a directory verbosely, you
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have to say <b class="command">ls -l</b>.</span>” Tends to imply a
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<a href="../N/newline.html"><i class="glossterm">newline</i></a>-terminated command (a
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‘sentence’). </p></dd><dd><p> 2. A computer may also be said to ‘say’ things to you,
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even if it doesn't have a speech synthesizer, by displaying them on a
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terminal in response to your commands. Hackers find it odd that this usage
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