FORTUNE(6)

NAME

fortune − print a random adage

USAGE

/usr/games/fortune [options] [file]

DESCRIPTION

Fortune tells your fortune or, at least, tells you something. When invoked with no options, fortune prints a adage selected at random from the default fortune database in /usr/games/lib/fortunes.dat.

OPTIONS

Fortune recognizes the following options.

−w Wait. This is useful if fortune is executed as part of the logout procedure. It waits for a period of time proportional to the length of the fortune before clearing the screen.

−s Short. Don’t print any long fortunes.

−l Long. Don’t print any short fortunes.

−o Choose from an alternate list of fortunes, often used for potentially offensive ones.

−a Choose from either list of fortunes.

file Get fortunes from file rather than the default fortune database (/usr/games/lib/fortunes.dat). This file must be created by strfile(6), Only one such file may be named.

FILES