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by gumby 2098 days ago
cu is, or was back in the day, a standard Unix utility (call up) — connect to another machine via modem.

It doesn’t appear to be in Ubuntu any more but still in openbsd, netbsd, and macos!

You can’t win win these namespace collisions: I have friends whose names are obscenities in other languages I speak.