Sep
21
2008

Fortune – An Interesting Command in Ubuntu

I found an interesting command in Ubuntu today.

Go the Terminal and enter fortune.

It displays an interesting epigram.

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About the Author: Bharat Balegere

Bharat Balegere is a 27 year old blogger from Bengaluru. He is a technology enthusiast and loves tinkering with computers and usb drives.

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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

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