The Unix Haters' Handbook is worth looking up. I think it is out of print but the PDF is available for download. My favourite from USENET is cleaning out .o fi

The Unix Haters' Handbook is worth looking up. I think it is out of print but the PDF is available for download. My favourite from USENET is cleaning out .o files after compiling C code but fat-fingering the SHIFT key and instead of typing % rm -f \.o ,typing % rm -f *>o which gives you an empty directory and a zero length file called "o" ah yes....