Old school linux terminal fun revisited. Random fortune quotes using random cowsay in Linux terminal

Posted by blackMOREOps on Dec 16, 2014 2:39 AM
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fortune is a simple program that displays a pseudorandom message from a database of quotations that first appeared in Version 7 Unix. The most common version on modern systems is the BSD fortune, originally written by Ken Arnold. Distributions of fortune are usually bundled with a collection of themed files, containing sayings like those found on fortune cookies (hence the name), quotations from famous people, jokes, or poetry.

Instead of letting that cow sat every fortune quotes, we've upped it to let all sorts of animals saying funny quotes.

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