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say: vt. 1. To type to a terminal. “To list a directory verbosely, you
have to say ls -l.” Tends to imply a
newline-terminated command (a
‘sentence’). 2. A computer may also be said to ‘say’ things to you,
even if it doesn't have a speech synthesizer, by displaying them on a
terminal in response to your commands. Hackers find it odd that this usage
confuses mundanes.
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