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Old school linux terminal fun revisited. Random fortune quotes using random cowsay in Linux terminal

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Dec 17, 2014

Normally all the guides using fortune and cowsay uses the default creatures (a.k.a Cow!) to show different quotes. There’s plenty of guides on that. However, I wanted to show a random creature saying different fortune quotes on my terminal.I could find random figment of instructions in different forums and decided to write a small guide on how to do it properly. Few lines of codes, and my Linux terminal becomes more alive!
Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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