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2008
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Fortune – An Interesting Command in Ubuntu

Author An article by Bharat Balegere    Comments 2 Comments  Last Modified on September 21, 2008

I found an interesting command in Ubuntu today.

Go the Terminal and enter fortune.

It displays an interesting epigram.

screenshot agniagni desktop 1 Fortune An Interesting Command in Ubuntu

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About the Author: Bharat Balegere

Bharat Balegere is a 21 year old blogger from Bengaluru.He is a technology enthusiast and loves tinkering with computers and usb drives.

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  • Mike January 12, 2009 at 10:57 pm

    Fortune is a pretty standard thing across Linux and, I presume, UNIX. It has a wealth of good quotes in there; I’ve been meaning to figure out how to add new ones.

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    • Frank October 24, 2009 at 8:19 pm

      What Linux are you on? On Ubuntu, just use apt-cache search fortune. This give you a list of possible libraries

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