Ask HN: What is your favourite Unix 'joke' program or obscure utility? currently writing a joke unix utility as a homage to fortune and cowsay, so it made me wonder whether there are any more fun and/or interesting obscure unix utilities. |
Ask HN: What is your favourite Unix 'joke' program or obscure utility? currently writing a joke unix utility as a homage to fortune and cowsay, so it made me wonder whether there are any more fun and/or interesting obscure unix utilities. |
banner, as the grandparent of figlet and cowsay
lolcat, for colourising their output
pig (from bsd-games), for producing pig latin
dadadodo, jwz's Markov chain nonsense generator from the late 90s that seems eerily prescient in the light of today's LLMs
dissociated-press, a simpler version of dadadodo dating back to the dawn of Emacs