[ale] witty unix quips (say that 3 times fast!) [OT?]

Chris Ricker kaboom at gatech.edu
Tue Oct 9 10:51:37 EDT 2001


On Mon, 8 Oct 2001, Christopher Bergeron wrote:

> I once saw a list of some whitty unix quips or command line errors that are
> comical.  Has anyone seen this list or could anyone point me to it?  I can't
> for the life of me find it.  I just tried to do (as an example):
> 
> >killall sleep
> sleep: no process killed
> 
> and it reminded me of that list.  some of them are hysterical, and I'd like
> to read it again.  any pointers would be appreciated.

Dennis Ritchie's home page has a link to a long list of funny / bizarre
errors from a variety of platforms, along with background explaining 
them....

later,
chris


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