[Ilugc] [Tip] fortune - a game for wasting time
Kumar Appaiah
a.kumar at alumni.iitm.ac.in
Thu Aug 26 18:46:43 IST 2010
On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 05:56:23PM +0530, Tha.Suresh wrote:
> A game for wasting time.
>
> $ fortune | cowsay
>
> let a cow tell you your fortune
>
> $ fortune | cowsay -f tux
>
> Let Tux bring the fortune cookie
>
> You have to install fortune & cowsay packages.
[snip]
And, it is also useful to generate signatures for automatically
generating e-mail signatures, such as the one in this e-mail. :-)
Kumar
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