[ale] witty unix quips (say that 3 times fast!) [OT?]
Matt Shade
mshade at threekay.com
Mon Oct 8 21:58:04 EDT 2001
Some can be found at these links, but below is what you're looking for:
http://jeffcovey.net/linux/humor.html
http://www.solariscentral.org/adm/shellHumor.shtml
% cat "food in cans"
cat: can't open food in cans
% nice man woman
No manual entry for woman.
% rm God
rm: God nonexistent
% ar t God
ar: God does not exist
% ar r God
ar: creating God
% "How would you rate Quayle's incompetence?
--MORE--(8%) Unmatched ".
% Unmatched ".
Unmatched ".
% [Where is Jimmy Hoffa?
Missing ].
% \316 How did the sex change operation go? \316
Modifier failed.
% If I had a ( for every $ the Congress spent, what would I have?
Too many ('s.
% make love
Make: Don't know how to make love. Stop.
% sleep with me
bad character
% got a light?
No match.
--MORE--(15%) % man: why did you get a divorce?
man:: Too many arguments.
% !:say, what is saccharine?
Bad substitute.
% %blow
%blow: No such job.
% \(-
(-: Command not found.
$ PATH=pretending! /usr/ucb/which sense
no sense in pretending!
$ drink <bottle; opener
bottle: cannot open
opener: not found
$ mkdir matter; cat >matter
matter: cannot create
Matt
----- Original Message -----
From: "Christopher Bergeron" <christopher at bergeron.com>
To: ale at ale.org
To: "Ale" <ale at ale.org>
Sent: Monday, October 08, 2001 21:27
Subject: [ale] witty unix quips (say that 3 times fast!) [OT?]
> I once saw a list of some whitty unix quips or command line errors that
are
> comical. Has anyone seen this list or could anyone point me to it? I
can't
> for the life of me find it. I just tried to do (as an example):
>
> >killall sleep
> sleep: no process killed
>
> and it reminded me of that list. some of them are hysterical, and I'd
like
> to read it again. any pointers would be appreciated.
>
> tia,
> CB
>
>
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