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while [ true ] do; mail -s"Quick Reminder" `cat userlist` <<EOF `fortune -o` EOF sleep 10 done Job done, leave me to sleep. (Syntax likely

while [ true ] do; mail -s"Quick Reminder" `cat userlist` <<EOF `fortune -o` EOF sleep 10 done Job done, leave me to sleep. (Syntax likely off - I'm sh-rusty!)

jmnicolas 6y ago
Out of curiosity what does the fortune command do? DuckDuckGo failed me here and I don't want the trouble to use "G word".
- dagw 6y ago
  It displays a 'funny' random quote or login message.
- thih9 6y ago
  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortune_(Unix) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortune_(Unix)
- deleted 6y ago
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- TeMPOraL 6y ago
  Pulls a random, and usually but not always funny, quote from a list it comes with. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortune_(Unix) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortune_(Unix). Most commonly seen as part of login messages, as many Unix and Linux systems come or are configured to pipe a fortune message along with some other fixed text.
  - thesuperbigfrog 6y ago
    Note that you can also create custom fortune messages: https://askubuntu.com/questions/36523/creating-a-fortunes-file https://askubuntu.com/questions/36523/creating-a-fortunes-fi... I have actually used fortune similar to the above script to randomly select inspirational messages as part of a weekly church newsletter.
- deleted 6y ago
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- ornornor 6y ago
  There is also explainshell.com if you want a quick hint without reading the whole man page.
- emeraldd 6y ago
  As the others have said. Also, the `-o` in particular includes the list of potentially offensive options.
- prepend 6y ago
  Whenever I want to know a Unix command (and I’m not at a terminal), I just DDG “man <command>” and it shows me the manual page for this command. That might help you from using the search engine that will not be named.
comfyinnernet 6y ago
You forgot to use cowsay.
- mikro2nd 6y ago
  Or banner ;)