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layout: page title: Lewd and naughty Linux commands permalink: /blog/lewd-linux-commands/ keywords: naughty,lewd,linux,commands,funny description: Can a computer be naughty and lewd? With the command man finger they seem to be able to "finger" at least men. lang: en feed: true age: 16

date: 2023-07-19 00:00:00 +0100

CW: This page contains lewd Linux commands.

For a long time now, a T-shirt with the inscription unzip | strip | touch | finger | grep | mount | fsck | unmount | sleep has been circling around the Internet. All of them are Linux commands - even if some are used rather rarely. However, they don't make any substantive sense in that order. Since I recently came across some threads, I'd like to make a small list of instructions which are lewd, but really work.

Manuel pages offer a lot of potential

man unzip

The real meaning is that one opens the manuel page from the program unzip. The figurative meaning is quite obvious and means to undress a man. A reversal of the command also works:

unzip man

This command would extract a ZIP file named man, man.zip or man.ZIP.

man cat

Also with this command one opens a Manuel page, but this time from the program cat, which is used for the output and merging of data streams. figurative meaning probably fits the word "catboy" best.

man touch

In this example, the beautiful Manuel pages appear again, but this time from the program touch, which can be used to create empty files. The figurative meaning is corresponding to the physical contact with a man. A reversal of the words would also work:

touch man

This would create an empty file with the name man. The figurative meaning remains the same.

man finger

A rather provocative figurative meaning, not only to contact with a man, but to "finger" him, that is, to perform a stimulation on his buttocks. However, finger is in itself a program to interact with the old finger protocol. This is described in RFC1288 and uses TCP port 79, and was used to retrieve user information. An alternative for retrieving this information is the graphical browser Lagrange. The finger man command also exists. It retrieves information about the user man. The figurative meaning remains the same.

man man

Here again the figurative meaning is quite clear - it consists in the act between two persons of male gender. The command itself opens the Manuel page via the command man. This in turn is used to opens Manuel pages. The command man woman does not exist.

There is also a comic about this:

The image is from Imgur. The commands are from Reddit.

Conclusion

If you have any other funny comics on the subject or any other commands, feel free to email me so I can include them here.