let a cow tell you your fortune

2010-06-03 59 words 1 min read

bash Linux

Here\’s something that I saw on commandlinefu yesterday. That sent me thinking about some command to have the cow file picked randomly 🙂 So, here\’s the original command from the commandlinefu:

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Let Tux bring the fortune cookie

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by David Winterbottom (codeinthehole.com)

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[link to original | source: All commands

Now, for some fun

#!/bin/bash –
#===============================================================================

#          FILE: fortune_cowsay.sh

#         USAGE: ./fortune_cowsay.sh

#   DESCRIPTION: Cowsay with random cow file.. 🙂

#       OPTIONS: —
# REQUIREMENTS: —
#          BUGS: —
#         NOTES: —
#        AUTHOR:   (),
#       COMPANY:
#       VERSION: 1.0
#       CREATED: 06/01/2010 03:25:59 PM IST
#      REVISION: —
#===============================================================================

array=( `ls -1 /usr/share/cowsay/ |tr ’\n’ ’ ’` )
count=${#array}
random=$((RANDOM%count))
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