Forever stumbling across Unix commands

Man, I hate when this happens—I'm browsing around on the Intarwebs, when I come across a reference to what appears to be some obscure Unix command [1] only to find it's been around for close to thirty years now [2].

Sigh.

That's what I get for not bothering to read up on the 3,300 commands available by default on your typical Unix installation (found by simple invocation of find `echo $PATH | tr : ' '` -type f -perm 755 | wc -l—ain't Unix wonderful?).

[1] http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=look&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=Unix+Seventh+Edition&format=html

[2] http://glomek.blogspot.com/2007/12/unix-makes-computer-science-easy.html

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