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I added "fortune | cowsay -f tux| lolcat" to my ~/.bashrc. It is always nice to see some often inspirational or thought-provoking quote if I open a terminal win

I added "fortune | cowsay -f tux| lolcat" to my ~/.bashrc. It is always nice to see some often inspirational or thought-provoking quote if I open a terminal window.

mattowen_uk 5y ago
I've ported fortune to Win32, and now have it show me a nice quote whenever I open a Command Prompt. It was feature I always wanted to have, and gave up waiting for MS to provide it. For me, my first ever experience of fortune was on DEC VMS systems.
- JCWasmx86 5y ago
  Has the cmd on windows an equivalent to .bashrc? If yes - TIL
  - mattowen_uk 5y ago
    Yes it does - it's specified via a registry key. I tried to find a reliable page to link to but the best I could find was this: https://ss64.com/nt/syntax-autoexec.html https://ss64.com/nt/syntax-autoexec.html Many, many, moons ago Windows NT had support for an 'autoexec.nt' batch file which did the same, so it's not a new feature just horribly undocumented.
    - banana_giraffe 5y ago
      It is actually documented in cmd /? .. kinda. cmd's help shows that autorun is disabled with /d, and mentions which keys it looks for. I use it to have a different prompt for administrator windows. To anyone using it: Be careful. Any side effects in your autorun script can have entertaining effects on batch files when you least expect it.
      - jaclaz 5y ago
        To be more precise, besides the warning on SS64 site, check also this: https://renenyffenegger.ch/notes/Windows/registry/tree/HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Microsoft/Command-Processor/index https://renenyffenegger.ch/notes/Windows/registry/tree/HKEY_... TLDR is that for /f loops do spawn a child cmd.exe process and you won't like the result (recursiveness).
        banana_giraffe 5y ago
        That's one I hadn't seen before, and would assuredly cause fun. The common one I've seen surprisingly often is the autorun script doing "cd" and causing for /f loops to break in some way.
  - recursive 5y ago
    Powershell does. Microsoft.PowerShell_profile.ps1
  - deleted 5y ago
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- ComodoHacker 5y ago
  Did you publish the port? Can't find any mentions on your website(s).
  - mattowen_uk 5y ago
    No. I didn't think there would be any interest tbh. I have 100s of little apps like that which I have never shared...
gonzus 5y ago
Thanks for that! I added -a to fortune, so every once in a while (but not always) I get an offensive aphorism -- yes, I am willing to be offended! NOTE: this may require installing the offensive fortunes package.
- BeFlatXIII 5y ago
  I once wrote a script to pipe fortune -os into cowsay with random parameters. Unless things have changed in the past six years, cowsay inexplicably has no options to specify to use a random cowfile and randomly choose whether to say or think the aphorism.

I added "fortune | cowsay -f tux| lolcat" to my ~/.bashrc. It is always nice to see some often inspirational or thought-provoking quote if I open a terminal window.

mattowen_uk 5y ago

I've ported fortune to Win32, and now have it show me a nice quote whenever I open a Command Prompt. It was feature I always wanted to have, and gave up waiting for MS to provide it. For me, my first ever experience of fortune was on DEC VMS systems.

JCWasmx86 5y ago
Has the cmd on windows an equivalent to .bashrc? If yes - TIL
- mattowen_uk 5y ago
  Yes it does - it's specified via a registry key. I tried to find a reliable page to link to but the best I could find was this: https://ss64.com/nt/syntax-autoexec.html https://ss64.com/nt/syntax-autoexec.html Many, many, moons ago Windows NT had support for an 'autoexec.nt' batch file which did the same, so it's not a new feature just horribly undocumented.
  - banana_giraffe 5y ago
    It is actually documented in cmd /? .. kinda. cmd's help shows that autorun is disabled with /d, and mentions which keys it looks for. I use it to have a different prompt for administrator windows. To anyone using it: Be careful. Any side effects in your autorun script can have entertaining effects on batch files when you least expect it.
    - jaclaz 5y ago
      To be more precise, besides the warning on SS64 site, check also this: https://renenyffenegger.ch/notes/Windows/registry/tree/HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Microsoft/Command-Processor/index https://renenyffenegger.ch/notes/Windows/registry/tree/HKEY_... TLDR is that for /f loops do spawn a child cmd.exe process and you won't like the result (recursiveness).
      - banana_giraffe 5y ago
        That's one I hadn't seen before, and would assuredly cause fun. The common one I've seen surprisingly often is the autorun script doing "cd" and causing for /f loops to break in some way.
- recursive 5y ago
  Powershell does. Microsoft.PowerShell_profile.ps1
- deleted 5y ago
  [deleted]
ComodoHacker 5y ago
Did you publish the port? Can't find any mentions on your website(s).
- mattowen_uk 5y ago
  No. I didn't think there would be any interest tbh. I have 100s of little apps like that which I have never shared...

gonzus 5y ago

Thanks for that! I added -a to fortune, so every once in a while (but not always) I get an offensive aphorism -- yes, I am willing to be offended! NOTE: this may require installing the offensive fortunes package.

BeFlatXIII 5y ago
I once wrote a script to pipe fortune -os into cowsay with random parameters. Unless things have changed in the past six years, cowsay inexplicably has no options to specify to use a random cowfile and randomly choose whether to say or think the aphorism.