The following shows a Linux command line with a # prompt:
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echo -e 'AAAAHHH!!!\a' > /dev/null
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It represents a famous line from a work of fiction. What line is that?
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asked Mar 26, 2015 at 14:23
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7$\begingroup$ Clever variation on rebuses! $\endgroup$– KevinCommented Mar 26, 2015 at 20:22
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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.
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Space!
answered Mar 26, 2015 at 14:35
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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.
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$\begingroup$ That's correct, although Ian beat you to it. The beep is there to make sure the word "hear" is part of the answer. $\endgroup$ Commented Mar 26, 2015 at 14:42