I found out that this tool http://www.convertlit.com/ provides a program with a funny name. I wonder if there are similar programs with offensive names or puns like this one. For example, I remember reading a fortune output saying something along the lines of

man Why did you get divorced? 
man: Too many arguments.

And of course, there is the cliche touch grass.

  • takeheart@lemmy.world
    19·
    5 months ago

    git gud

    not a meme per se but I always found the command abcde confusing:

    user1: How to best rip this music album??

    user2: Oh simple: abcde

    user1: 🤔🤔?

    abcde stands for ‘a better CD encoder’, the more you know

  • jxk@sh.itjust.works
    19·
    5 months ago

    Here you go: https://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/unix.errors.html

    (% represents the csh, $ represents the bourne shell)
 
% "How poorly would you rate the Unix (so-called) user interface?
Unmatched ".
 
% rm congressional-ethics
rm: congressional-ethics nonexistent
 
% ar m God
ar: God does not exist
 
% [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.
 
% sh
 
$ PATH=pretending! /usr/ucb/which sense
no sense in pretending
 
$ drink <bottle; opener
bottle: cannot open
opener: not found
 
$ mkdir matter; cat >matter
matter: cannot create
 
 
Or, in a System V (att) universe:
 
$ cat "can of food"
cat: cannot open can of food
    • Vivendi@lemmy.zip
      21·
      5 months ago

      Jimmy Hoffa? How fucking old is this? Was this written on a vacuum tube powered mini?

  • pelya@lemmy.world
    11·
    5 months ago

    My go-to joke is

    cat /dev/urandom | pxz | grep haxx

    Or if you want to be nasty

    setsid sh -c 'cat /dev/urandom | pacat -p'

    As for puns, less command does the same thing as more on MS-DOS.

      • pelya@lemmy.world
        5·
        5 months ago

        The first one is a fancy CPU warmer. The second one will play loud noise through your headphones, and setsid will make sure you can’t stop it with Ctrl-C.

        There was a thread about console commands seen in movies or TV, when the actors need to do some ‘hacking’ on camera. And the most common one was just installing updates to your Linux distribution of choice.