Fortunes

This repo contains a collection of files with quotes we like.

These files can be turned into fortune database files.

Inspired by Hamlet D'Arcy and Dale Manthei to create this repository.

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What is Fortune?

Fortune is a simple Unix program that displays a random message from a database of quotations.

$ fortune

"What we see is mainly what we look for."
  ~Unknown

Installing Fortune

fortune package. If your computer has already installed it, skip this step.

# Mac
$ brew install fortune

# Debian/Ubuntu
$ sudo apt-get install fortune

Usage

Clone the repo.

$ git clone git@github.com:knightrider/fortunes.git

Then build the data files.

$ make

$ fortune [OPTIONS] [/path/to/fortunes/src]

How to automatically launch fortune when opening a shell window

Depending on which shell you use, at the end of your ~/.bashrc or ~/.zshrc file, copy the following lines into it.

fortune [OPTIONS] [/path/to/fortunes/src/]

So, that's a little boring. Snaz it up a little bit by adding CowSay.

# Mac
$ brew install cowsay

# Debian/Ubuntu
$ sudo apt-get install cowsay

# Node version of cowsay
$ npm install -g cowsay

fortune [OPTIONS] [/path/to/fortunes/src/] | cowsay

# Now you get
 _______________________________________
/ The only thing necessary for the      \
| triumph of evil is for good men to do |
\ nothing. - Edmund Burke               /
 ---------------------------------------
        \   ^__^
         \  (oo)\_______
            (__)\       )\/\
                ||----w |
                ||     ||

License

angular-bootstrap-datetimepicker is released under the MIT license and is copyright 2015 Knight Rider Consulting, Inc.. Boiled down to smaller chunks, it can be described with the following conditions.

It requires you to:

• Keep the license and copyright notice included in files when you use them in your works

It permits you to:

• Freely download and use the source code, in whole or in part, for personal, private, company internal, or commercial purposes
• Use this source code in packages or distributions that you create
• Modify the source code
• Grant a sublicense to modify and distribute source code to third parties not included in the license

It forbids you to:

• Hold the authors and license owners liable for damages as this source code is provided without warranty
• Hold the creators or copyright holders of this source code liable
• Redistribute any piece of source code without proper attribution
• Use any marks owned by Knight Rider Consulting, Inc. in any way that might state or imply that Knight Rider Consulting, Inc. endorses your distribution
• Use any marks owned by Knight Rider Consulting, Inc. in any way that might state or imply that you created the Knight Rider Consulting, Inc. software in question

It does not require you to:

• Include the source code itself, or of any modifications you may have made to it, in any redistribution you may assemble that includes it
• Submit changes that you make to the source code back to this repository (though such feedback is encouraged)

The full license is located in the project repository for more information.