Friday, November 11, 2011

The difference -- version 2

What's the difference between man and cat?

You can man a man ($ man man) but not cat a cat ($ cat cat).

P.S. Also, as was pointed out by a colleague, you can man a cat but not cat a man.

2 comments:

kaliprasad said...

wrong.
you can cat a cat (if cat is name of a file)

Mohsin said...

yep.. but that is not generally true.. whereas manpages are generally installed..