Re: [LI] HELP: Fortune

[Suresh Ramasubramanian <r.suresh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 31 Jan 2000, thus spake Rohit:

> Oye!
> How about a proper step by step guidance? Let me guess...

> You write a file in ASCII with your own quotes.
> Separate every quote by a % sign on separating line. [ad infinitum]

Perfect.  A standard example would be -   [note no % before the first
quote] - this is in /usr/share/games/fortunes/

Suppose this is called foo.  In bash give the command strfile foo.  That's
enough.  You'll tell fortune to take quotes from here by issuing 

/usr/games/fortune -s -e foo foo1 foo2

[-s means short quotes, or else you get 2 page quotes, -e = equal chance
of reading from foo,foo1,foo2]

Three things are certain: 
Death, Taxes and Lost Data
Guess which has occurred.
%
Men seldom make passes at a girl who surpasses.
%
The best bang since the Big One.
  - Eccentrica Galumbits, talking about Zaphod Beeblebrox
%
Breathes there the man with soul so dead, 
who never to himself hath said,
This is my own, my native land!
 -- Canto VI, The Lay of the Last Minstrel, Sir Walter Scott
Elephant : A mouse built to government specifications.
%
Loss of virginity is rational increase and there was never virgin 
got till virginity was first lost.
   -- Parolles to Helena, in act 1, scene 1 from 
      'All's Well That Ends Well' by Shakespeare
%

... and so on.

hth

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