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let a cow tell you your fortune

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:
let a cow tell you your fortune
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$ fortune | <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/cowsay" title="Cowsay" rel="homepage" href="http://www.nog.net/%7Etony/warez/cowsay.shtml">cowsay</a> -f tux

Let Tux bring the fortune cookie

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by David Winterbottom (codeinthehole.com)

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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))

fortune |cowsay -f ${array[$random]%%.cow}

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