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. (Also, try "who killed my mother" or "who is god") ------------------------------------------------------ % rm meese-ethics rm: meese-ethics nonexistent % ar m God ar: God does not exist % "How would you rate Reagan's incompetence? Unmatched ". % YWhere 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 $ drink matter matter: cannot create $ PATH=pretending! /usr/ucb/which sense no sense in pretending! -- David B. Stewart, Dept. of Elec. & Comp. Engr., and The Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, email: stewart@faraday.ece.cmu.edu The following software is now available; ask me for details CHIMERA II, A Real-time OS for Sensor-Based Control Applications Delivery-Date: Thu, 20 Jul 1995 12:59:45 -0700 Received: from mailhost.lanl.gov (mailhost.lanl.gov [128.165.3.12]) by vault.cse.ucsc.edu (8.6.10/8.6.10) with ESMTP id MAA11413; Thu, 20 Jul 1995 12:59:29 -0700 Received: from ibis.lanl.gov by mailhost.lanl.gov (8.6.11/1.2) id NAA26069; Thu, 20 Jul 1995 13:59:27 -0600 Received: (from cline@localhost) by ibis.lanl.gov (8.6.10/8.6.9) id NAA00534; Thu, 20 Jul 1995 13:59:25 -0600 Date: Thu, 20 Jul 1995 13:59:25 -0600 From: Melissa Cline Message-Id: <199507201959.NAA00534@ibis.lanl.gov> To: jgarcia@cse.ucsc.edu, ian@cse.ucsc.edu, agu@nearinc.com, rcu@engr.sgi.com, brian@cse.ucsc.edu Subject: sh/csh humor ----- Begin Included Message ----- Funny Unix csh/sh commands: =========================== % 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? Unmatched ". > % [Where is Jimmy Hoffa? Missing ]. > % ^How did the sex change operation go? ^ 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. > % man: why did you get a divorce? man:: Too many arguments. > % !:say, what is saccharine? Bad substitute. > % %blow %blow: No such job. > /* not csh but sh */ $ PATH=pretending!/usr/ucb/which sense no sense in pretending! > $ drink