How did it know?? (Warning: This post contains french language and is not suitable..)

vexer · 07-21-2003, 01:48 PM

vexer@TheKeep:~$ man -k tabarnac!
tabarnac!: nothing appropriate

That made me laugh.

-vexer

DrOzz · 07-21-2003, 01:54 PM

hahh i am by no means a french speaker but i know what that means and that is pretty funny that it does say that ;-)

tcaptain · 07-21-2003, 02:04 PM

I'm bilingual and that's pretty funny

Goes right up there with that webpage I haven't been able to find again...silly Unix tricks or something

Mathieu · 07-21-2003, 02:07 PM

Now that's funny.

DrOzz · 07-21-2003, 02:21 PM

now that i think of it, i find that it is just as funny that you would type that in

vexer · 07-21-2003, 06:36 PM

I checked up what man -k was, you know, and turns out, in the man pages the -k switch is described by a french word.

vexer@TheKeep:~$ man man
[...]
-k Equivalent to apropos.
[...]

vexer · 07-21-2003, 06:37 PM

Well, it all started out with me being frustrated and learning of the help command, and when nothing good happened I just let out a string of swears after help and it told me to man -k tabarnac! and so I did.