What famous line does this Linux command line represent?

Question

The following shows a Linux command line with a # prompt:

#




                            echo -e 'AAAAHHH!!!\a' > /dev/null




#

It represents a famous line from a work of fiction. What line is that?

Ian MacDonald · Accepted Answer · 2018-10-16T20:50:18.207

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The answer is

"In space no one can hear you scream." The tagline for the Alien movie.

echo -e 'AAAAHHH!!!\a'

This is a scream. (Added bonus of \a telling the system to beep.)

> /dev/null

This redirects the output to the null device, effectively muting it.

Space!

edited Oct 16 '18 at 20:50

answered Mar 26 '15 at 14:35

Ian MacDonald

score 13 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 26 '15 at 14:38

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In space, no one can hear you scream

The scream gets written to /dev/null, which discards all data written to it. In other words no one receives the text, it gets lost 'in the void'.

Not sure what the beep represents though.

answered Mar 26 '15 at 14:38

Mark

That's correct, although Ian beat you to it. The beep is there to make sure the word "hear" is part of the answer. – pacoverflow Mar 26 '15 at 14:42

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