Computer Science Canada Unix Humor |
Author: | apomb [ Mon Nov 22, 2004 1:06 pm ] |
Post subject: | Unix Humor |
I was searching for some Linux/Unix documentation when i came across this: Unix Humor wrote: NOTE : % => user must run C- Shell (csh). $ => user must run Bourne-Shell (sh). % who is my match? No match. % got a light? No match. % "How would you rate Reagan's incompetence? Unmatched ". % 'thou shalt not commit adultery' thou shalt not commit adultery: Command not found. % [Where is Jimmy Hoffa? Missing ]. % ^What is saccharine? Bad substitute. % ^How did the^sex change operation go? Modifier failed. % %Vice-President %Vice-President: No such job. % \(- (-: Command not found. % date me You are not superuser: date not set Thu Aug 25 15:52:30 PDT 1988 % make bottle.open Make: Don't know how to make bottle.open. Stop. % make 'heads or tails of all this' Make: Don't know how to make heads or tails of all this. Stop. % make light Make: Don't know how to make light. Stop. % make mistake Make: Don't know how to make mistake. Stop. % make sense Make: Don't know how to make sense. Stop. % man: why did you get a divorce? man:: Too many arguments. % ar m God ar: God does not exist % rm God rm: God nonexistent % rm -i God rm: remove God? y % ls God God not found % * How would you describe George Bush *: Ambiguous. % set i="Democratic_Platform";mkdir $i;chmod 000 $i;ls $i Democratic_Platform unreadable % awk "Polly, the ship is sinking" awk: syntax error near line 1 awk: bailing out near line $ PATH=pretending! /usr/ucb/which sense no sense in pretending! $ drink matter matter: cannot create $ "Amelia Earhart" Amelia Earhart: not found $ man -kisses dog dog: nothing appropriate $ lost lost: not found % sccs what bottle can't open bottle (26) $ cat "door: paws too slippery" can't open door: paws too slippery $ cat food_in_tin_cans cat: can't open food_in_tin_cans Quite hilarious ... even if you dont know that much about the OS. |