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Kenneth John Odle b0e811ac4d
Updated readme file with additional links 		10 months ago
amer-authors Added American authors and musicians files 10 months ago
fortunes-o Added offensive file; udpated readme file 10 months ago
hesse Added Hermann Hesse file 10 months ago
kjodlenet Added missing «%» at EOF 10 months ago
musicians Added American authors and musicians files 10 months ago
readme.md Updated readme file with additional links 10 months ago

readme.md

Fortune Fortune Files

The fortune utility is a fun little utility that, when called, outputs a fortune to stdout.

The fortunes are found in (generally) /usr/share/games/fortunes. To create you own fortunes, create a text file in that folder (you will need root privileges), and separate each fortune with a % sign on a separate line. (See the current files for examples.)

After you save your file, use the strfile utility to create a .dat file that fortune can read.

Offensive or potentially offensive fortunes should have -o appended to the file name and be placed in /usr/share/games/fortunes/off. The command fortune -o will return a fortune from any file found in that directly.

For more information, see the fortune(6) and (especially) strfile(1) pages.

More files are available here and here.

About these files:

  • kjodlenet — A list of quotations that appear in the header of my home page.

  • hesse — Quotations from Herman Hesse.

  • musicians — Quotations from musicians (WIP)

  • amer-authors — Quotations from USian authors (WIP)

Offensive Quotations

My installation was missing any offensive fortunes, so I went searching. I found a set of fortune files at OpenGrok and have added the offensive fortune file here. (If you go there, I urge you to read the "Notes" file.) As noted in the fortune manual, proceed with caution, or not at all if you are easily offended.