I learned something new today. While watching a video on Linux Shell scripting the narrator (foreign accent) was reading #! /bin/sh He read it as The Hash Sign, Shriek, Followed By The Bin Sh Path I had never heard of Shriek before and had to replay it to make sure I was hearing it correctly. Sure enough it's a term for !. From Wikipedia: Slang and other names for the exclamation mark In the printing world, the exclamation mark can be called a screamer, a gasper, a slammer, or a startler. In hacker culture, the exclamation mark is called "bang", "shriek", or, in the British slang known as Commonwealth Hackish, "pling". For example, the password communicated in the spoken phrase "Your password is em-nought-pee-aitch-pling-en-three" is m0ph!n3. Makes sense and it's easier to say than EXCLAMATION POINT. PLING sounds funny though.

I learned something new today. While watching a video on Linux Shell scripting the narrator (foreign accent) was reading #! /bin/sh He read it as The Hash Sign, Shriek, Followed By The Bin Sh Path I had never heard of Shriek before and had to replay it to make sure I was hearing it correctly. Sure enough it's a term for !. From Wikipedia: Slang and other names for the exclamation mark In the printing world, the exclamation mark can be called a screamer, a gasper, a slammer, or a startler. In hacker culture, the exclamation mark is called "bang", "shriek", or, in the British slang known as Commonwealth Hackish, "pling". For example, the password communicated in the spoken phrase "Your password is em-nought-pee-aitch-pling-en-three" is m0ph!n3. Makes sense and it's easier to say than EXCLAMATION POINT. PLING sounds funny though.
by Gilbert Jagot

October 15, 2016 at 10:59PM
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