Having fun with man pages

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Looking for man pages inside synaptic, i found that interesting package: funny-manpages. It has some man pages for well-known commands, like rm, echo, date, and has some new commands, like baby, party and even rtfm!

For debian based distros, it’s enough to do: apt-get install funny-manpages.

Some man pages available after installation of above package: (try them with man <command>)

date
echo
party
rtfm
xkill
baby
…etc (To show the complete list: dpkg -L funny-manpages)

Have fun!

6 comments ↓

#1 Azrael Nightwalker on 07.21.07 at 15:52

Also check out asr-manpages

#2 alefteris blog on 07.23.07 at 5:09

Αστείες man pages

Σε συνέχεια των διασκεδαστικών εκπλήξεων , που πιθανόν να μην ξέρατε πως υπάρχουν σε ένα σύστημα gnu/linux, ανακάλυψα και άλλο ένα. Ή καλύτερα …

#3 paschelino on 07.24.07 at 8:04

I must admit, I am quite angry about this package. First, I had to laugh. But reading the man-page for the fake-command sex, you will find the following option:
-P pedophilia

So, WHAT THE HELL IS FUNNY ABOUT THAT?????

#4 Jonh Wendell on 07.24.07 at 8:14

paschelino, you’re right. That’s a terrible thing to spread out.

I’m going to fill a bug report about that.

Thanks for point this out.

#5 paschelino on 07.27.07 at 4:00

John, thank’s for reacting! Hopefully we, i.e. you and your readers, will not often be that badly surprised by the evil minds of others and what they think to be funny. Filing a bug report is an important step. But maybe it is equally important to speak about this to others in the open source scene.

What do you think?

#6 Marcio on 02.07.08 at 0:02

Free Indian Sex…

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