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!
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