Comments on: Wit and wisdom from the manpages http://boredzo.org/blog/archives/2007-04-17/wit-and-wisdom-from-the-manpages The personal weblog of Peter Hosey. Fri, 05 Dec 2008 13:50:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: Nacho http://boredzo.org/blog/archives/2007-04-17/wit-and-wisdom-from-the-manpages#comment-122712 Nacho Wed, 19 Sep 2007 14:41:10 +0000 http://boredzo.org/blog/archives/2007-04-17/wit-and-wisdom-from-the-manpages#comment-122712 "man less" says that less is the opposite of more. "man less" says that less is the opposite of more.

]]> By: huwr http://boredzo.org/blog/archives/2007-04-17/wit-and-wisdom-from-the-manpages#comment-39881 huwr Mon, 07 May 2007 07:31:09 +0000 http://boredzo.org/blog/archives/2007-04-17/wit-and-wisdom-from-the-manpages#comment-39881 My favourite was the man pages for true and false on Linux (specifically, Debian). They said "do nothing, successfully" and "do nothing, unsuccessfully". Gold. :-) My favourite was the man pages for true and false on Linux (specifically, Debian). They said "do nothing, successfully" and "do nothing, unsuccessfully".

Gold. :-)

]]> By: Nicholas Riley http://boredzo.org/blog/archives/2007-04-17/wit-and-wisdom-from-the-manpages#comment-35850 Nicholas Riley Mon, 30 Apr 2007 20:04:30 +0000 http://boredzo.org/blog/archives/2007-04-17/wit-and-wisdom-from-the-manpages#comment-35850 My favorite is the *BSD yes man page. In fact, the first thing I did after installing Mac OS X 10.0 was to open Terminal and type "man yes". My favorite is the *BSD yes man page. In fact, the first thing I did after installing Mac OS X 10.0 was to open Terminal and type "man yes".

]]> By: Jordy/Jediknil http://boredzo.org/blog/archives/2007-04-17/wit-and-wisdom-from-the-manpages#comment-34538 Jordy/Jediknil Mon, 30 Apr 2007 06:12:58 +0000 http://boredzo.org/blog/archives/2007-04-17/wit-and-wisdom-from-the-manpages#comment-34538 I saw on a recent man page "BUGS: This program has no bugs" or something along those lines, but I can't find it now... I saw on a recent man page "BUGS: This program has no bugs" or something along those lines, but I can't find it now...

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