Generate Automatic Motivational Phrases in Terminal
Was it Linux coaching? Not so much, there the offensive mode too!
Was it Linux coaching? Not so much, there’s the offensive mode too! 😁️
Introduction
fortune is a simple program that displays random, poignant, inspirational, silly or malicious phrases from a citation database. The fortune command line utility is part of the games-misc/fortune-mod package.
Installation
Fortune is available from the repository of all Linux distributions and all BSD. So to install use the same:
emerge fortune-mod # Gentoo, Funtoo, ...
sudo apt install fortune # Debian, Ubuntu, Mint, ...
sudo pacman -S fortune-mod # Arch, Manjaro,...
sudo yum install fortune # Red Hat, CentOS, ...
sudo dnf install fortune # Fedora
On BSDs it is already installed by default! :)
Use
To generate a sentence just run the command:
fortune
Some options:
fortune -a
- generates all sorts of sentences: long, short, offensive;fortune -o
- only generates offensive phrases, for those who like! Observação (Note, in Gentoo and Funtoo, you need to compile with the flagUSE="offensive"
for offensives to appear);fortune -l
- only long sentences;fortune -c
- only short sentences;fortune -m
- Only phrases that contain at least one word that matches the regex you pass; For more options use the manual:man fortune
More options
- 1 - If you want every time you open a terminal, a phrase appears, just add it to your
echo 'fortune' >> ~/.bashrc
or the Shell configuration file you use. - 2 - If you want a window to appear every time you log in. Example if it is in GNOME:
- Create a
phrase.desktop
and use, for example, Yad and create a script withyad --title="Sentence of the day" --text="<big>$(fortune)</big>"
which will be called by phrase.desktop and add it to start in the Startup Applications option. - 3 - Install other mods that display phrases: Star Wars, South Park, Simpsons, Linux Kernel and more!
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