/fortune

Display random quotes

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fortune

License: MIT Twitter: mr_roose

Display random quotes

fortune is powershell implementation of the Unix fortune program that displays a random message from a database of quotations.

Default fortune file contains quotes from http://fortunes.cat-v.org/openbsd/

Prerequisites

Install

First add custom bucket and install completion:

# add auto-update bucket
scoop bucket add scoop-tools https://github.com/roose/scoop-tools

# install
scoop install fortune

Usage

fortune path\to\fortune_file

If you don't specify a file path, fortune defaults to the contents of the fortune.txt in app directory.

Fortune Cookie File Format

!07/11 PDP a ni deppart m'I !pleH
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(1) Alexander the Great was a great general.
(2) Great generals are forewarned.
(3) Forewarned is forearmed.
(4) Four is an even number.
(5) Four is certainly an odd number of arms for a man to have.
(6) The only number that is both even and odd is infinity.

Therefore, Alexander the Great had an infinite number of arms.
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(1) Everything depends.
(2) Nothing is always.
(3) Everything is sometimes.