fortune

I love having FORTUNE(6) run on my login-shell and configuring cookies myself. I cannot find a non-personal collection of topic-specific fortune cookies. So here it is.

install fortune

on macOS

• Install homebrew if you don't have it already.
• Run brew install fortune in Terminal.

on Debian/Ubuntu

• apt-get install fortune

download

Clone repository, then run the setup_custom_fortunes.sh script. To remove custom fortunes of your choice simply delete the files from custom_fortunes. You might have to create the directory /usr/local/share/games/fortunes.

The script has been tested on

• macOS
• ubuntu

contributing

The point of this repo is for people to contribute. Add fitting quotes to a file of your choosing or create your own file. Add source when fitting. Fortune is meant to print "a random, hopefully interesting, adage" - (adage := a proverb or short statement expressing a general truth.)

• Let's keep the quality: Only add quotes / other adages that you personally like, find inspiring or funny.
• All topics should have an own file named [directory]-topic. Please don't include "-" in the file name otherwise

Let's see what abstruse subtopics the internet will find. Quotes are separated by %. See https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fortune#Creating_custom_files

Docker container testing changes to the project (not required for use)

There is a Dockerfile in the repository that will assemble a lightweight Docker image with the latest version of Ubuntu, fortune, as well as a copy of the repository. This will allow you to run the project within a Docker container instead of your local computer, keeping your fortune setup separated from changes to the project that you may wish to test first.

To use this isolated test environment:

• Make your changes to the custom_fortunes directory or the setup_custom_fortunes.sh script.
• Install Docker for your operating system (Available for Linux, Mac, Windows)
• Run docker build -t ubuntu_fortune:latest .
• Run docker run -it ubuntu_fortune:latest /bin/bash
  • At this point, you should be inside the test environment in a directory called /fortune. The prompt will look something like this:

  root@0be2c9cb3117:/fortune# ls
  custom_fortunes  setup_custom_fortunes.sh
  

• Run ./setup_custom_fortunes.sh to set up the custom fortunes on the host.
• Test and confirm any changes that you'd like
• When finished, type exit at the prompt to return to your local terminal.

topics

Collection of fortune cookies to any imaginable topic, sorted in directories. Every directory has a [directory]-all. This is not meant to collect all subtopics, but as a file for all things that do not fit in a subtopic

films

• lordoftherings
• harrypotter

music

• joco

games

• kingdomofloathing
• deponia
• portal

literature

• haiku
• shakespeare

science

society

• feminism
• lgbtq

television

• lost

computer

• networking

motivation

• shia_labeouf
• habits

... ... add more