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Unix and the single girl

$ man find
$ man date
$ man mount

These commands make me giggle. Unix is kind of dirty.

November 10, 2005 : 8:09 PM
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man fsck
posted by P : November 11, 2005 6:36 PM : link to this comment

the story continues...

man touch
zip
head
man sleep

and you made me feel dirty when i showed you my monkey
posted by Anonymous : November 14, 2005 11:03 AM : link to this comment

mmmm... syntactic sweets...

who && gawk && uname && talk && date && wine && touch && unzip && strip && touch && finger && mount && fsck && more && yes; yes; more; yes; umount && make clean && make mrproper && sleep
posted by Mike : November 15, 2005 6:52 PM : link to this comment

Wow mike, I've only ever seen the unzip - umount, but you've turned a clumsy teenage interaction in to a complete one night stand.

People always say the power of the command line comes from the ability to combine utilities.
posted by Andy : November 16, 2005 1:44 PM : link to this comment

Couldnt help but ...

%man woman
No manual entry for woman found

ranga
posted by Anonymous : November 16, 2005 11:46 PM : link to this comment

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