Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The most useless UNIX command

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The result of the debate was Delete. Essjay ·  Talk 14:49, August 6, 2005 (UTC)

The_most_useless_UNIX_command
This is subjective and not NPOV, unencyclopedic.Mmmbeer 21:43, 30 July 2005 (UTC)


 * Agreed. Delete. sars 21:47, July 30, 2005 (UTC)
 * Agreed. Delete. Eclipsed 21:59, 30 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Not quite good enough for BJAODN.  Robert A West 23:58, 30 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete &mdash; RJH 00:54, 31 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Whilst Wikipedia might have articles on the useless use of cat and the useless use of grep, both of which are widely recognised concepts in the world of Unix shell scripting, this isn't those articles, no one single command can be said to be the most useless, and the subject of which of all Unix commands is the most useless has not received enough discussion by primary and secondary sources for a Wikipedia article on the subject to be more than original research. Delete. Uncle G 01:04:54, 2005-07-31 (UTC)
 * Delete. "most useless" is highly subjective. ManoaChild 01:20, 31 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. What's more, his example with if=/dev/null is wrong! Tonywalton 14:33, 6 August 2005 (UTC)
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