tldr/pages/common/fortune.md

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fortune

Print a random quotation (fortune-cookie style). More information: https://man.archlinux.org/man/fortune.6.

  • Print a quotation:

fortune

  • Print an offensive quotation:

fortune -o

  • Print a long quotation:

fortune -l

  • Print a short quotation:

fortune -s

  • List the available quotation database files:

fortune -f

  • Print a quotation from one of the database files listed by fortune -f:

fortune {{filename}}