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Command Line Life Partner Wanted

emj writes "Craiglist offers an interesting approach to finding a life partner , summmary: "There is a sad truth to the world today. I am part of a dying breed of people known as "shell users." ... Because there are fewer and fewer of us, I must help keep our lineage alive. I am looking for someone to help me do this. I need a woman (obviously) who is willing to raise a child with me in the method of Unix."."

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  1. hmmm... by hbean · · Score: 5, Funny

    grep -i 'single white female' /usr2/home/women/*

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    "Give someone a program, frustrate them for a day... Teach someone to program, frustrate them for a lifetime."
    1. Re:hmmm... by EvilMonkeySlayer · · Score: 5, Funny

      grep: /usr2/home/women/*: No such file or directory

      *Sniff*

    2. Re:hmmm... by oliderid · · Score: 5, Funny

      grep -i 'white female' /home/me/Desktop/women/*

      1256 pictures found.

    3. Re:hmmm... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      grep -i 'asian schoolgirl' /home/me/Desktop/women/*

      *error insufficient memory

    4. Re:hmmm... by ohtani · · Score: 5, Funny

      ohtani@darkstar:~$ man woman
      Segmentation fault (core dumped)

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      Pancakes. Oh I blew it.
    5. Re:hmmm... by somersault · · Score: 5, Funny

      basement# grep -i 'single white female' /usr2/home/women/*

      Your mom

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      which is totally what she said
    6. Re:hmmm... by malkavian · · Score: 4, Funny

      root@SoupDragon:~/# man woman
      No manual entry for woman

      Which makes me wonder if the shell requirement is solely so he can make a Cron job and have automated entry?

    7. Re:hmmm... by ResidntGeek · · Score: 5, Funny

      Just a heads-up, it's generally considered improper to seek a wife from one's own home.

      Try /pub.

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      ResidntGeek
    8. Re:hmmm... by cruff · · Score: 5, Funny

      I found this to be more correct:

      % man woman
      No manual entry for woman

    9. Re:hmmm... by operagost · · Score: 5, Funny

      Ok... this is exactly why you guys only have pictures of women.

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    10. Re:hmmm... by antifoidulus · · Score: 4, Funny

      Well, essentially he is looking for a device..... something he can input sperm into and get a baby as output, so probably /dev would be the best place to look. Though I don't know how many women have usb 2.0 compatible vaginas.

    11. Re:hmmm... by Cerberus7 · · Score: 5, Funny

      You ran that as root? What are you, crazy? You might as well hand over your car keys and bank account numbers to her! Oh, wait, that happens anyway...

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      I don't know about you, but my servers run on the power of cotton candy and happy thoughts. -Anonymous Coward
    12. Re:hmmm... by rbowles · · Score: 5, Funny

      Pictures?!?!?
      I find a textual representation to be much more accurate and efficient. Certainly much easier to write an efficient parser for text than for a picture.

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      /* MAGIC THEATRE
      ENTRANCE NOT FOR EVERYBODY
      MADMEN ONLY */
    13. Re:hmmm... by Sillygates · · Score: 4, Funny

      grep -i 'asian schoolgirl' /home/me/Desktop/women/* grep: argument list too long
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      I fear the Y2038 bug
    14. Re:hmmm... by linguizic · · Score: 3, Funny

      yoyhed@hell:~/# ./jackoff > /dev/sock
      There, fixed that for you.
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      Does this sig remind you of Agatha Christie?
    15. Re:hmmm... by spatialguy · · Score: 5, Funny

      % make love
      no target to make love

  2. Unichs? by Wordsmith · · Score: 4, Funny

    Don't be silly. Unichs can't have children.

    1. Re:Unichs? by u-bend · · Score: 5, Funny

      They're asexual. They respawn when killed.

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      u-bend
    2. Re:Unichs? by dreamchaser · · Score: 3, Funny

      That sound you just heard was the joke (a play on the words 'unix' and 'eunuchs') going WHOOOOOSH right over your Anonymously Cowardly head.

  3. One things for sure by clubhi · · Score: 5, Funny

    This kid will get all the chicks.

  4. How they make children by ORBAT · · Score: 5, Funny

    who && gawk && uname && talk && date && wine && touch && unzip && strip && touch && finger && mount && fsck && more && yes; yes; more; yes; umount && make clean && sleep

    1. Re:How they make children by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      9 months later, fork() and spawn()

    2. Re:How they make children by $RANDOMLUSER · · Score: 5, Funny

      You forgot "head".

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      No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism. - Winston Churchill
    3. Re:How they make children by Mr.+Underbridge · · Score: 5, Funny

      who && gawk && uname && talk && date && wine && touch && unzip && strip && touch && finger && mount && fsck && more && yes; yes; more; yes; umount && make clean && sleep

      See, that's just laziness. What about parallel threads, exception handling, and race conditions? ;)

    4. Re:How they make children by The+Ultimate+Fartkno · · Score: 5, Funny

      > and race conditions

      How can you post something like that on MLK day?

      (I expect at least one mod point for not forcing a really clunky "I have a d-ram" joke...)

    5. Re:How they make children by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      ...and race conditions?
      They have drugs to treat premature ejaculations now I think...
  5. A UNIX relationship... by hitchhikerjim · · Score: 4, Funny

    Hmm... a relationship consisting of short, efficient and flexible commands that can be combined in interesting ways. Sounds pretty good to me. But I've only seen it work in the BDSM world.

  6. Hey baby... by Megane · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...wanna fork()?

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  7. No graphical interface ... by StripedCow · · Score: 5, Funny

    Obviously, her looks are completely unimportant.

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    If Pandora's box is destined to be opened, *I* want to be the one to open it.
    1. Re:No graphical interface ... by niceone · · Score: 5, Funny

      Obviously, her looks are completely unimportant.

      Yeah, it's character based.

  8. He almost had me going... by mr_gerbik · · Score: 5, Funny

    Until I read this: I've been known to actually turn down offers of "two chicks at the same time."

    Seriously though, I'd love to see the look on two girls' faces when this guy says, "Sorry ladies, I'm looking for a vi user, and you two look like you can't even use Word."

    1. Re:He almost had me going... by calebt3 · · Score: 3, Funny

      He didn't mention the cup.

  9. What a poser by $RANDOMLUSER · · Score: 5, Funny

    N.B. - on the issue of relocation. I live in a place where my income/expense ratio is proper (i.e., greater than 2:1). I'm willing to live anywhere in the world where this remains true.
    As if. A real Unix geek would use a symbolic link.
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    No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism. - Winston Churchill
  10. I only see one problem... by Valar · · Score: 4, Funny

    I was quite sure that many women out there would find the ad very intriguing, until he got to the part about only using Vi. Seriously, why would you bring up your mental health conditions even before the first date?

  11. Intelligent atheist white man seeks sweetie by nuxx · · Score: 4, Funny

    Don't forget the other UNIX-y posting where an Intelligent atheist white man seeks sweetie.

  12. If he finds such a woman... by jollyreaper · · Score: 4, Funny

    He will have to propose. I wonder if he's going to go with diamond or a token ring?

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    Sell the spice to CHOAM
    This Mahdi took Shaddam's Throne
  13. Re:his kids will tame him or suffer by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    You must be a real hit at parties.

  14. ...and "tail" by Joce640k · · Score: 5, Funny

    very important, that one...

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    No sig today...
  15. ONE child? by Jesus_666 · · Score: 5, Funny

    He wants ONE child? Okay, so either he doesn't want his family to go anywhere or his grasp of the Unix way is very light. Of course he needs MANY children, each good at one and only one thing:

    One child can read and write.
    One child can do math.
    One child knows how to operate a car.
    And so on.

    Then, in order to do anything useful he pipes together the children. That's the proper Unix way of founding a family.

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  16. How this could end up... by E-Lad · · Score: 5, Funny

    [daleg@home]~$ ./significant-other
    Reading configuration from ~/.sorc...
    Welcome to GNU Significant Other! It's Monday, January 21, 2008:

       -- It is trash night.
       -- It is recycling night.
       -- Fault in dishwasher water supply was detected on 1/19/2008. Please address by 1/23/2008
       -- "Poker Night" appointment in calendar observed. This conflicts with "Movie with kids"
       -- Snow is predicted tomorrow during the evening. Please ready sho
    ^Z
    [1]+  Stopped       ./significant-other
    [daleg@home]~$

    1. Re:How this could end up... by Alioth · · Score: 5, Funny

      [reiser@home]~$ kill -9 %1
      [1]+ Killed ./significant-other
      [reiser@home]~$ _

  17. I can just hear it now! by techpawn · · Score: 5, Funny

    Because there are fewer and fewer of us, I must help keep our lineage alive. I am looking for someone to help me do this. I need a woman (obviously) who is willing to raise a child with me in the method of Unix."."
    Mom: There's something billy wants to say to you dear...
    Dad: What is it son?
    Son: Well, ever since I was young I knew I was different... Not like the other boy you wanted me to play with and...
    Dad: Billy? Are you telling us you're gay?
    Son: No! Not that dad...
    Dad: Well son what is it?
    Son: I've been dual booting XP for weeks now! I want to use a GUI!
    Dad: WHAT?!! I have no son!
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    Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what your country did to you
  18. Re: Good at only one thing by Dareth · · Score: 3, Funny

    reading and writing is definitely more than one thing.

    You would need a whole team of children to operate a car, and even then you should avoid "race conditions"!

    --

    I only look human.
    My mother is a halfling and my dad is an ogre, so that makes me an Ogreling
  19. Feminist Unix command by InterGuru · · Score: 4, Funny

    man bash

  20. Command Line Users: The new Amish? by dreamchaser · · Score: 4, Funny

    I can see it now...colonies of geeks will spring up all over that are only allowed to marry each other and can't use any computer technology developed after 1986.

  21. Two Girls... by Edward+Teach · · Score: 4, Funny

    Ok, so the only reason he turned down two girls is because they only had one cup between them...

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    Setting his threshold to 5, Sparky eliminated most of the trolls on /.

  22. Re:Obvious Fake by Ilan+Volow · · Score: 4, Funny

    A real sysadmin would simply pipe one chick into the other.

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    Ergonomica Auctorita Illico!
  23. Re:his kids will tame him or suffer by lysse · · Score: 3, Funny

    I think it's more that he tends to hit people at parties.

  24. Re:Vista has a great command prompt by garnetlion · · Score: 4, Funny

    I feel so, so dirty envying a Vista feature. I'm sure I could configure Gnome to do the same, but I don't feel good about myself right now.

  25. Linux sex by gringer · · Score: 4, Funny

    I need a woman (obviously) who is willing to raise a child with me in the method of Unix. Here's one way to do it on Linux:

    gawk; chat; look; nice; date; wine; grep; touch; play; unzip; strip; touch; expand; screen; finger; screen; latex; tangle; mount; fsck; more; yes; yes; yes; yes; screen; yes; yes; yes; more; yes; yes; umount; sleep
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  26. Re:Geek Dating Service ... Requirements? by mattwarden · · Score: 3, Funny

    Please add the following requirements:

    * Women

    This will be the toughest feature to implement.