The most pointless shell command you can concoct, based upon a often used shell command Let's waste some time coming up with stupid ideas which are close cousins of good ideas.


Your useless command doesn't have to fit any minimum or maximum length.
Do, however, try to turn it into a one-liner if you can.
No particular requirement for what shells and utilities are used, within reason. 
He who wins, wins.
More rules will be added if they are added.
Mine is the inverse of "print the kernel arguments you booted with on Linux":

cat /proc/cmdline
# turns into...
fgrep -x -f &lt;(awk -F\= 'BEGIN { RS = " "} ; {print $1"="}' &lt;/proc/cmdline)\
-v &lt;(curl 'https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt' 
2&gt;/dev/null | awk '/\t+[a-z._]+=/ {print $1}' | tee test2) | tr '\n' ' ' &amp;&amp;
echo