Linux Command Line Fun
So, way, way back in the day, we're talking the early 1990s, I wound up as a Unix sysadmin ( HP-UX, to be precise, colliquially known as "hocky pux"). One of the standard "tools" that was included with every Unix distribution is the "fortune" command, which spits out a random selection from a large database of quotes of varying origins. Standard practice, since the days of yore, has been to have this run when you login (and sometimes log out) of your command line shell. Something like "motd" (message of the day), but personalized.
One of my little side programming projects has been to take fortune, and mash it up with a variety of other related tools (cowsay and lolcat).
- aafire
- boxes
- cmatrix
- cowsay / cowthink
- figlet
- fortune
- lolcat
- rev
- sl
- toilet
Tags: linux, bash, login, logout, ascii, ascii-animation, aafire, boxes, cmatrix, cowsay, cowthink, figlet, fortune, lolcat, rrev, sl, toilet