UNIX Humor

Nerdy UNIX things I found on a CS1U handout (if you type the top line at a UNIX prompt, you’ll get the given response, though not consistently on all UNIXes):

And who thought computers didn’t understand english?

> If I had a ( for every $ the Congress spent, what would I have?
Too many ('s.

> \(- (-:
Command not found.

> man: why did you get a divorce?
man:: Too many arguments.

> "How would you rate Quayle's incompetence?
Unmatched ".

> got a light?
No match.

> mkdir matter; cat >matter
matter: cannot create