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:
It is for example discussed here:
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:
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 ?