A fortune file filled with quotes from T.S. Eliot! Some of them are just quotes, and some of them are from poems. I scraped them from BrainyQuote.
fortune is a program, usually found on Unix-type systems, that picks a quote at random and writes it out to your terminal. People use it to fancify their login process, and you can too!
When you open a terminal, it could look like this:
We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our
exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the
place for the first time.
-- T.S. Eliot
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You'll need fortune installed on your system. It is already included with most Linux distributions. If you're using one of those and you don't have it, you'll have to figure it out on your own. fortune isn't included with Mac OS X, so I recommend you get Homebrew (http://brew.sh/), and then install it by typing:
brew install fortune
Hopefully, we can do the rest automagically. Just run the following (in the directory that you cloned from this git repository!):
make install
Now you should be able to run:
fortune tseliot
And get a T.S. Eliot quote every time! If you run it with no arguments (just fortune) you will get T.S. Eliot in the mix just sometimes.
If you want to have fortune run when you log in, and you're using bash (quite likely if you haven't chosen a shell), open ~/.bashrc and add the following line:
fortune
Or, if you want just T.S. Eliot quotes, add the following line:
fortune tseliot
That's it! Have fun.