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Even then it can be problematic. https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/405783/why-does-man-print-gimme-gimme-gimme-at-0030 https://unix.stackexchange.com/qu

• hoten 5y ago
  That wasn't behind a flag. Really, I'd call that a prank, which is bad taste in software, not an Easter egg.
• belval 5y ago
  It goes to show that even stuff that I would consider rock solid (such as man pages) can be surprisingly brittle if one person can make a change over a tweet. Some comments on the SO thread seem to imply that it shouldn't have been removed but I don't think this was a "good" easter egg. The joke is good, but it should have been harder to trigger (in my opinion).
  • account42 5y ago
    It was made harder to trigger (only show up in error cases) before being removed.