Then it's my turn to try. This should be easy, hope it hasn't been asked before:

My name refers to a storage medium
that is now only found in a museum.
I am used daily by all
and have more flags than anyone can recall.

(04-11-2020, 01:44 AM)Dworin Wrote: Then it's my turn to try. This should be easy, hope it hasn't been asked before:

My name refers to a storage medium
that is now only found in a museum.
I am used daily by all
and have more flags than anyone can recall.

Let me guess:

Your first thought was closer. Perhaps daily is a slight exaggeration.

(04-11-2020, 02:19 AM)Dworin Wrote: Your first thought was closer. Perhaps daily is a slight exaggeration.

Exactly. Now if you can tell what the first letter stands for, your solution is really complete. Either way, well played, over to you.

(04-11-2020, 02:33 AM)Dworin Wrote: Exactly. Now if you can tell what the first letter stands for, your solution is really complete. Either way, well played, over to you.

Well, I'm too honest to say I knew this so I looked it up and... (just in case some die hard's want to figure it out on their own I'll wrap it with a spoiler tag again)

Ok, I'll give this a try...


I was introduced in the C shell
To make your life easier
I can do multiple things at once
My actions are defined by the user

What am I?

(04-11-2020, 07:38 PM)Ramiferous Wrote: Ok, I'll give this a try...


I was introduced in the C shell
To make your life easier
I can do multiple things at once
My actions are defined by the user

What am I?

I'll try:

(05-11-2020, 02:07 PM)opFez Wrote:

(04-11-2020, 07:38 PM)Ramiferous Wrote: Ok, I'll give this a try...


I was introduced in the C shell
To make your life easier
I can do multiple things at once
My actions are defined by the user

What am I?

I'll try:

aliases

You got it in 1. I'll have to make it harder next time :)

Here we go, I'll push another one.

I'm a command line utility, but also a library
I run either with arguments or interactively
The folks at OpenBSD forked me to add more security
Yes, I'm related to all thing cryptography

(06-11-2020, 05:31 AM)venam Wrote: Here we go, I'll push another one.

I'm a command line utility, but also a library
I run either with arguments or interactively
The folks at OpenBSD forked me to add more security
Yes, I'm related to all thing cryptography

You got it phillbush, that's the right answer.

Let me try.

I was used to write The C Programming Language.
You do not use my commands directly: you call macros.
I'm a UNIX utility that survived into plan 9.
What you see is not what you get.

Just to add a hint to my post (try not to use it):

Had to use the hint. :(

(13-11-2020, 04:42 PM)vain Wrote: Had to use the hint. :(

That's it!

Now another one!


You can find a man with my name in section 1 and in section 3.
I'm only on BSD systems, not on Linux.
You could use cat -v, but that's considered harmful
I make you see the invisible.

Ah ! Pretty sure I got it !

(15-11-2020, 11:16 AM)z3bra Wrote: Ah ! Pretty sure I got it !

vis

You got it, that's the answer.

(13-11-2020, 05:36 PM)phillbush Wrote: You could use cat -v, but that's considered harmful

This line confused me, how did that help?

Because cat -v has a similar behavior. The "considered harmful" is a reference to cat-v.org.

I don't understand anything, yet reply to everyone.
Network facing, I use the standard interface.
Even daemons have super heroes !
Turned down for performance issues.
Does "echo" by myself, sometimes more...

(15-11-2020, 07:02 PM)z3bra Wrote: I don't understand anything, yet reply to everyone.
Network facing, I use the standard interface.
Even daemons have super heroes !
Turned down for performance issues.
Does "echo" by myself, sometimes more...

I'll try to guess, but still unsure:

Yup that's it ! Well done ;)