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{ 2008 01 20 }

Man Watch

Yet again, something amusing found in the man pages. Check out man (1) watch and search for the term 'administrator':

--snip--

You can watch for your administrator to install the latest kernel with

watch uname -r

(Just kidding.)

Oh brother. :)

Posted by Aaron Toponce on Sunday, January 20, 2008, at 2:33 pm. Filed under Linux. Follow any responses to this post with its comments RSS feed. You can post a comment or trackback from your blog. For IM, Email or Microblogs, here is the Shortlink.

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  1. mike using Firefox 2.0.0.9 on GNU/Linux | January 20, 2008 at 5:54 pm | Permalink

    That was mine--glad you liked it...

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  1. Geek Lectures - Things geeks should know about » Blog Archive » Man Watch | January 20, 2008 at 3:19 pm | Permalink

    [...] SolSie / The Lighter Side of Technology wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerpt Yet again, something amusing found in the man pages. Check out man (1) watch and search for the term ‘administrator’: –snip– You can watch for your administrator to install the latest kernel with watch uname -r (Just kidding.) Oh brother. [...]

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