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Unix weenie n.

[ITS] 1. A derogatory play on `Unix wizard', common among

hackers who use Unix by necessity but would prefer alternatives.

The implication is that although the person in question may

consider mastery of Unix arcana to be a wizardly skill, the only

real skill involved is the ability to tolerate (and the bad taste

to wallow in) the incoherence and needless complexity that is

alleged to infest many Unix programs. "This shell script tries to

parse its arguments in 69 bletcherous ways. It must have been

written by a real Unix weenie." 2. A derogatory term for anyone

who engages in uncritical praise of Unix. Often appearing in the

context "stupid Unix weenie". See Weenix, Unix

conspiracy. See also weenie.

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