From: charles.unix.pro@gmail.com (Charles Anthony)
Subject: [TUHS] A man easter-egg (gimme gimme gimme)
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2017 15:07:18 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CANV78LQzLQacgOhXqQarAChubfFt1_UkczD8Uzct6-Zu0miDQg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
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On Tue, Nov 21, 2017 at 1:03 PM, Edouard KLEIN <edouardklein at gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> An easter-egg in the version of man that is installed on the most popular
> Linux distros has recently been discovered after being there for 6 years:
>
> https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/405783/why-does-
> man-print-gimme-gimme-gimme-at-0030
>
> It is for example discussed here:
> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15747313
>
> It makes man print 'gimme gimme gimme' if called at "Half past twelve", as
> in the ABBA song.
>
> I check on BSD, but man seems to be a shell script on FreeBSD, so it's
> immune from the easter egg:
> https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd/blob/master/usr.bin/man/man.sh
>
> Do you have any UNIX easter-egg stories ? Putting some in, or discovering
> one...
>
> Was this kind of humor tolerated in the professional settings where UNIX
> first circulated, or was it frowned upon ?
>
>
I remember back in the late 90's, the man page for syslogd had a section
about dealing with network attacks on syslogd servers; several approaches
described, the last one reading something like
....if all else fails, find a three for length of sucker rod* and have a
> discussion with the user.
>
*Sucker rod: 3/4 threaded steel rod, used in oil drilling.
It looks like someone edited it out of the man pages since then.
-- Charles
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Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-11-21 21:03 Edouard KLEIN
2017-11-21 22:47 ` Charles Anthony
2017-11-21 23:00 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-11-21 23:07 ` Charles Anthony [this message]
2017-11-21 23:30 ` George Michaelson
2017-11-22 0:51 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-11-23 22:39 ` George Michaelson
2017-11-23 19:17 ` Ron Natalie
2017-11-23 21:22 ` Ralph Corderoy
2017-11-21 23:30 ` Henry Bent
2017-11-22 8:48 ` arnold
2017-11-22 9:50 ` Andreas Kusalananda Kähäri
2017-11-22 16:00 ` Ian Zimmerman
2017-11-22 16:11 ` arnold
[not found] ` <CANCZdfq=KBrpYsMq5BZxjTOce694qVaJ0Pp7aeKHV9ecsBD2YQ@mail.gmail.com>
2017-11-23 12:09 ` arnold
[not found] ` <CAJfiPzwvxRaQXanEmvkfeTKp=QMtiAFhCOaWDHyfHRihJ4_nFQ@mail.gmail.com>
2017-11-24 15:33 ` Nemo
2017-11-23 19:45 Noel Chiappa
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