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04 09 2006

Unix humour

Posted by: Richard in Techie Humour, Technology

For unix geeks only: Some unix humour.

Windows users, look away now. You won’t get it. And, yes, we are laughing at you.

via boingboing and neil

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4 Responses to “Unix humour”

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   Ben Evans Says:
   September 5th, 2006 at 9:06 am

   Haha, which reminds me of the only witicism in the exceptionally dry and terse Solaris/SunOS man pages, it used to be at the end of the page for “tunefs”. It went something along the lines of “you can tune a file system, but you can’t tune a fish”

   I expect that this has now been removed for corporate governance reasons or similar now.

   Cheers

   Ben “my dog’s got no nose” Evans

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   Richard Says:
   September 5th, 2006 at 9:17 am

   There’s also the classic Unix command line jokes, such as:

   % cd /pub
   % more beer

   and I found a few good ones here:

   http://pintopc.home.cern.ch/pintopc/www/cois&lois/Unix_err.htm

   such as:

   % ar m God
   ar: God does not exist

   and

   % man woman
   No manual entry for woman

   and, for talk like a Pirate day:

   % ar x “matey, the treasure”
   ar: matey, the tresure does not exist

   Then there’s the jokey commands that aren’t valid:

   select count(*) from users where clue>0
   No rows returned.

   That sort of thing.

   Marvellous every bit of it.

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   Saltation Says:
   October 16th, 2006 at 2:21 pm

   mac os x (bsd) still has teh “tune a fish” joke in man tunefs.

   “how to shoot yourself in the foot” — old classic
   http://burks.bton.ac.uk/burks/language/shoot.htm

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   Saltation Says:
   October 16th, 2006 at 2:22 pm

   errr..

   how to shoot yourself in the foot

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