Why does man print “gimme gimme gimme” at 00:30?

Re:Why does man print “gimme gimme gimme” at 00:30? by MadcapJake on Tuesday November 21, 2017 @09:40AM (#15748088)

Seriously, you expect a command meant for users to navigate manuals to be a dependable part of a pipeline?! (it was being run once a minute at that!)

People need to realize this isn't some mission-critical tool, this is a manual reader.

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Re:Why does man print “gimme gimme gimme” at 00:30? by emodendroket on Tuesday November 21, 2017 @10:42AM (#15748605)

Is it not part of a standard set of utilities with standard, expected behavior? You can't really complain if you create some public API and people use it in a way you did not entirely anticipate.

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Re:Why does man print “gimme gimme gimme” at 00:30? by mikeokner on Tuesday November 21, 2017 @12:30PM (#15749625)

> The string "gimme gimme gimme" can be found in RHEL, OpenSUSE, Fedora, Debian and probably more, so it's not really distro specific. You can grep your man binary to verify.

Technically the behavior is standard, for some definition of standard.

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