Path: vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!nic-nac.CSU.net!nermal!ibaker From: ibaker@nermal.santarosa.edu (Ian Baker) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers,alt.humor.puns Subject: Re: Stupid UNIX Tricks Followup-To: alt.folklore.computers,alt.humor.puns Date: 1 Aug 1994 08:03:05 GMT Organization: Santa Rosa Junior College, Santa Rosa, CA Lines: 83 Message-ID: <31ia7p$mni@nic-nac.CSU.net> References: <30mk36$m48@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> <30q7aq$73@keen.ccit.duq.edu> <30rp23$rg7@sefl.satelnet.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: nermal.santarosa.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] This was posted here before. I found it on the local gopher. ~Subject: C-Shell Article 17 of alt.folklore.computers: Path: umn-cs!nic.MR.NET!srcsip!ctrsol!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!apple!rutgers!rochester!pt.cs.cmu.edu!fas.ri.cmu.edu!dstewart ~From: dstewart@fas.ri.cmu.edu (David B Stewart) ~Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers ~Subject: Unix Message-ID: <7223@pt.cs.cmu.edu> ~Date: 6 Dec 89 05:24:33 GMT Organization: Carnegie-Mellon University, CS/RI ~Lines: 72 I personally like the humour provided by the csh shell. The following came my way several months ago. Unfortunately, I cannot take credit for any of these. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Paul Barth writes: Since we are all now great Unix wizards, the follow might be humorous. It came to me from Umass. Note that the '%' prompt indicates that the command should be issued from the C shell, and the '$' prompt indicates the Bourne shell. ------------------------------------------------------ % rm meese-ethics rm: meese-ethics nonexistent % ar m God ar: God does not exist % "How would you rate Reagan's incompetence? Unmatched ". % [Where is Jimmy Hoffa? Missing ]. % ^How did the sex change^ operation go? Modifier failed. % If I had a ( for every $ 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. % man: why did you get a divorce? man:: Too many arguments. % ^What is saccharine? Bad substitute. % %blow %blow: No such job. % \(- (-: Command not found. % sh $ PATH=pretending! /usr/ucb/which sense no sense in pretending! $ drink matter matter: cannot create