Some funny things caught on shell…
Note that the ‘%’ prompt indicates that the command
should be issued from the C shell, and the ‘$’
prompt indicates the Bourne shell.
% rm meese-ethics
rm: meese-ethics nonexistent
% rm God
rm: God nonexistent
% “How would you rate Reagan’s incompetence?
Unmatched “.
% [Where 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.
% \(-
(-: Command not found.
% man woman
No manual entry for woman.
% make ‘heads or tails of all this’
Make: Don’t know how to make heads or tails of all this. Stop.
$ PATH=pretending! /usr/ucb/which sense
no sense in pretending!
$ drink < bottle; opener
bottle: cannot open
opener: not found
$ "Amelia Earhart"
Amelia Earhart: not found
$ mkdir matter;cat > matter
matter: cannot create
$ lost
lost: not found
$ cat “door: paws too slippery”
can’t open door: paws too slippery
$ cat food_in_tin_cans
cat: can’t open food_in_tin_cans