A silly Bash script. Ask a question, and Tux gives a random answer.
The script, as written, requires the following:
bashtputfigletwith fontsmmono9cowsaywith cowfiletuxlolcat
Could it do without the lolcat? Sure. If you don't like it, change it after installing it. It's just Bash. You should learn Bash.
- Put
ask-tuxwherever you want it, preferably some location in yourPATHe.g.~/.local/bin/. - Make it executable, e.g. with
chmod u+x.
ask-tux <your question here>
The script can be configured by opening it in a text editor. Add or remove lines from the answers array to modify the set of possible answers given by Tux. Delete everything from if through fi to remove the requirement of typing a question if you would prefer to speak your question aloud. Maybe get spd-say involved if you want the computer to speak the answers aloud. If you learn Bash, which I already told you to do, then you can figure that out.
This script comes with no warranty of any kind. Use it at your own risk. If it magically breaks something, or whatever, it's your fault. You should learn Bash and then look at the script before running it. It's literally just a list of phrases and a few shell commands, the latter of which I wrote in my spare time because I was bored, and is shared here just in case anyone might find it amusing.
If someone else already wrote a substantially similar script, I'm sorry. If we both thought of it independently, then it must not be a very original idea, and I'm sorry for that too. If, say, the manufacturer of some fortune-telling toy doesn't like the fact that this script's default list of Tux answers is not very original either, then I guess I'm sorry for that as well. I just found this list of 20 phrases on some weird Wikipedia page about pool or billiards or something.