21 Nov
2017
21 Nov
'17
10:03 p.m.
Hi all,
An easter-egg in the version of man that is installed on the most popular
Linux distros has recently been discovered after being there for 6 years:
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/405783/why-does-man-print-gimme-gi…
It is for example discussed here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15747313
It makes man print 'gimme gimme gimme' if called at "Half past
twelve", as
in the ABBA song.
I check on BSD, but man seems to be a shell script on FreeBSD, so it's
immune from the easter egg:
https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd/blob/master/usr.bin/man/man.sh
Do you have any UNIX easter-egg stories ? Putting some in, or discovering
one...
Was this kind of humor tolerated in the professional settings where UNIX
first circulated, or was it frowned upon ?