“In all seriousness of being a Linux user we sometimes forget
the fun side of it all, here is an attempt to capture some of
it…“Shells often gives out error messages when it doesn’t agree
with your command input. Though it’s not exclusive for Linux
systems, it’s nevertheless funny and worth a mention. Here are some
examples of stderr in Linux system, I am sure some of you might
have already seen these before. If you know some funny stderr, do
share. Look at the shell prompt to take a hint on what shell is
being used for the examples…”
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