Thursday, March 23, 2006

Funny UNIX commands

[suntzu@gambino ~]$ man: Why did you get a divorce?
man:: Too many arguments.

[suntzu@gambino ~]$ make fire
make: *** No rule to make target `fire'. Stop.
[suntzu@gambino ~]$ why not?
why: No match.

[suntzu@gambio ~]$ !:say, what is saccharine?
Bad substitute.

[suntzu@gambino ~]$ %blow
%blow: No such job.