Gates in the Terminal

iPenguin

iPenguin

Hey, Look!

In a recent screen-shot on resexcellence.com show an easter egg in the Terminal, and it rocks!

Simply type "Bill Gates" hit return and press "y" when the next line comes up. then some stuff I don't understand comes up... if anyone understands it can they please tell me!
 
If you type a command Unix doesn't know, it will give you a cloase match to see if that is what you want, i.e if I type "Bill" (which isn't a command) it thinks I maybe spelt it wrong and meant "kill", (which is a command).

So it's just a trick, not an easter egg.

You type "Bill Gates", Terminal can't find a BILL command, so it says ok kill gates? (commence laughing), you say yes, and you get a line saying too few arguments - 'cause the "kill" command required a Process ID or job to kill.
 
Try these in tcsh:<pre>

% \(-
(-: Command not found

% %blow
%blow: No such job.

% [got a light?
[got: No match.

% if I had a ( for every $ Congress spent, what would I have?
Too many ('s.

% How would you rate Finder's slowness?
Unmatched '.

% cd ~God
Unknown user: God.

% echo '[q]sa[ln0=aln256%Pln256/snlbx]sb3135071790101768542287578439snlbxq'|dc
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Have fun.


 
Originally posted by Kartoffel
% [got a light?
[got: No match.

% if I had a ( for every $ Congress spent, what would I have?
Too many ('s.

% How would you rate Finder's slowness?
Unmatched '.

% echo '[q]sa[ln0=aln256%Pln256/snlbx]sb3135071790101768542287578439snlbxq'|dc
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I like these ones. Especially that last one. Is that coded in there?
 
Originally posted by HyperLiteG4
naw that last one says something when you cut and paste it into the Terminal: "GET A LIFE!"
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I didn't make it up. It's from one of those big "unix humor" lists floating around on the web.
 
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