The most informative error message I’ve ever obtained from a gnu util (find in this case): > find: warning: ‘-name’ matches against basenames only, but the given pattern contains a directory separator (‘/’), thus the expression will evaluate to false all the time. Did you mean ‘-wholename’? I wish all error messages were this helpful!
You mean you don’t love segfault as the entirety of an error message? :smile:
Or Killed :smile:
Your application crashed. You must meditate upon this revelation. OOM…
Actually, I did recently have a rant, er, somewhere about overly ‘cute’ error messages. Things like “I’ve been a bad boy and must go to my room for a while”, or “Oops, I did something wrong” etc. Such things rather irritate me. They’re worse than just saying “the application crashed due to an unknown error” or something since they’re at least as unhelpful in telling me what went wrong, but also annoyingly anthropomorphise the program.
Reasonably cute