Sep
21
2008
21
2008
Fortune – An Interesting Command in Ubuntu
An article by Bharat Balegere 2 Comments Last Modified on September 21, 2008
I found an interesting command in Ubuntu today.
Go the Terminal and enter fortune.
It displays an interesting epigram.
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Fortune is a pretty standard thing across Linux and, I presume, UNIX. It has a wealth of good quotes in there; I’ve been meaning to figure out how to add new ones.
What Linux are you on? On Ubuntu, just use apt-cache search fortune. This give you a list of possible libraries