05-17-2011
Interview madness
A discussion elsewhere got me thinking: What where the most insane/amusing/strange interview questions or answers you got/gave? Not overly technical stuff, but questions that made you go "Huh?" (And keeping with this forums main Idea: "No technical Q&A")
I'll start...
Quote:
Interviewer: What Linux distributions did you work with so far?
Me: Mainly Debian, but also SuSE, Fedora, Gentoo, and LFS (Linux from scratch)
Interviewer: Gentoo, huh? I guess we can skip the other Linux questions...
Quote:
(Same interview)
Interviewer: How would you explain the need for computer security to a non-technical person?
Me: Well, computer security is like the condom in your back-pocket. You might never need it, but if you don't have it when it's needed you'll probably pay dearly for a long time.
Interviewer: ....
Interviewer: Can we use that quote?
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lessecho
LESSECHO(1) General Commands Manual LESSECHO(1)
NAME
lessecho - expand metacharacters, such as * and ?, in filenames on Unix systems.
SYNOPSIS
lessecho [-ox] [-cx] [-pn] [-dn] [-a] file ...
DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the lessecho command. This manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution because the
original program does not have a manual page.
lessecho is a program that simply echos its filename arguments on standard output. But any argument containing spaces is enclosed in
quotes.
OPTIONS
A summary of options are included below.
-ox Specifies "x" to be the open quote character.
-cx Specifies "x" to be the close quote character.
-pn Specifies "n" to be the open quote character, as an integer.
-dn Specifies "n" to be the close quote character, as an integer.
-a Specifies that all arguments are to be quoted. The default is that only arguments containing spaces are quoted.
SEE ALSO
less(1)
AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Thomas Schoepf <schoepf@debian.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).
Less was written by Mark Nudelman <markn@greenwoodsoftware.com>
LESSECHO(1)