"foo" and "bar" question

[user222]

What is the "foo" and "bar" mentioned in the "makefile"s?

[drakebasher]

Those are fake names used for the purpose of demonstrating how something is done. If I wanted to explain how to use the grep command, I might demonstrate by grepping the word "foo" in the file "bar" so the command line would be

$ grep foo bar

If you replace the fake "foo" with "/dev/sda6" and the fake "bar" with "/etc/fstab", that would be equivalent to

$ grep /dev/sda6 /etc/fstab

and if you run that on my system, you will get:

$ grep /dev/sda6 /etc/fstab
/dev/sda6               swap                    swap    defaults        0 0

For the historical perspective, foo and bar come from a single word foobar, which is a corruption of the word fubar, which is an aconym for "f*d up beyond all recognition" which apparently was a common state for computers in earlier times.

[Stormblazer]

A fake name for something used in examples:
i.e. foo/foobar/bar etc.
I have no idea where it came from though.

[Flatline]

"For the historical perspective, foo and bar come from a single word foobar, which is a corruption of the word fubar, which is an aconym for "f*d up beyond all recognition" which apparently was a common state for computers in earlier times."

Yes, computers are NEVER fubar'ed in this day and age

[adam7979]

"For the historical perspective, foo and bar come from a single word foobar, which is a corruption of the word fubar, which is an aconym for "f*d up beyond all recognition" which apparently was a common state for computers in earlier times."

Yes, computers are NEVER fubar'ed in this day and age

lol !! i tot it was just as simple as "/blablabla/blablabla" din know it actually has a story!! ahahahahahaa LMAO