Re: [TCLUG:3857] fortune

[Ben Luey <lueyb@carleton.edu>]

> I'm trying to make my own fortune files. I did it last year, but I can't
> remember the name of the utility that makes fortune-readible .dat files
> anymore! It's not in the fortune man file either. Anybody know?

I've got a little script that does it for me. Here it is. The command is
`/usr/sbin/strfile filetomakedata'   the file should have quotes separated
with a % and a line break

 _____________________________
#!/bin/sh

usage() {
     echo \
"makequotes quotes-files
     makes dat files for fortune text files. .dat and text files should be
in ~/quotes $
     exit 0
}


case $1 in
     -h|--help|-help)    usage;;
     esac

if test $# -lt 1
then
     usage
fi

for QUERY in $*
do
    rm ~/quotes/$QUERY.dat
    /usr/sbin/strfile ~/quotes/$QUERY
done                      



> 
> Thanks,
> 	Luke
> 
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Ben Luey
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