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<title> Why call it Miller? </title>
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<br/><a href="why.html">Why?</a>
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<center><titleinbody>Why call it Miller?</titleinbody></center>
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<p> The Unix toolkit was created in the <b>1970s</b> and is a mainstay to this day.
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Miller is written in plain C, and its look and feel adheres closely to the
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_philosophy">classic toolkit style</a>:
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if this were music, Miller would be a <b>tribute album</b>. Likewise, since commands
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are subcommands of the <code>mlr</code> executable, the result is a <b>band</b>, if
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you will, of command-line tools. Put these together and the namesake is another
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classic product of the 1970s: the
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve%5fMiller%5fBand">Steve Miller Band</a>.
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