On Thursday 25 August 2005 05:40 pm, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote:
| Josenildo Marques wrote:
| > J Adam Latham wrote:
| >> Hi:
| >> I use fortune to create my mail signature from a file of random quotes
| >> in my home dir. Today is the first time in a long while that I've
| >> updated the random quotes and now for the life of me I can't remember
| >> what I need to do to make that text file readable and executable so
| >> that the new quotes will be part of the fortune cycle ... I have a
| >> vague memory that it's a root command but can't recall what exactly
| >> ... Another vague memory says that the command outputs a .dat file ...
| >> Does this process ring a bell for anyone?
| >>
| >> I'm sorry for how vague this inquiry is. But hopefully it will jog
| >> someone's memory ...
| >> Thanks in advance,
| >> Adam
| >
| > strfile yourfile
|
| I googled fortune, thinking I'd like to use it to generate random
| signatures, but got a number of hits, and don't know if there's a
| specific one to use. Any help please.
read 'man fortune', and 'man strfile'. I think the strfile is the command you
want.
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