https://github.com/hubtou/fortunes-unix

Unix philosophy and quotes fortunes
https://github.com/hubtou/fortunes-unix

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Unix philosophy and quotes fortunes

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/hubtou/fortunes-unix
• Owner: HubTou
• Created: 2021-08-07T22:04:16.000Z (over 3 years ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2021-08-16T22:58:59.000Z (over 3 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-12-07T04:00:27.582Z (about 1 month ago)
• Topics: fortune, fortune-cookies, historical-data, pnu-project, quote, quotes, unix, unix-philosophy
• Language: Makefile
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• Size: 32.2 KB
• Stars: 3
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.md

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# Installation

pip install [fortunes-unix](https://pypi.org/project/fortunes-unix/)

# Unix fortune data files

## DESCRIPTION

This package contains some [Unix](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix) operating system aphorisms and quotes for the [fortune](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortune_(Unix)) utility.

If you find other good ones, feel free to submit them in the repository's [discussion](https://github.com/HubTou/fortunes-unix/discussions) board or clone the repository and make a pull request.

## FILES

Filename|Sources

---|---

unix-philosophy|Mainly Wikipedia's [Unix Philosophy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_philosophy), plus from some books

unix-quotes|Mainly extracted from fortune own [fortunes](https://github.com/HubTou/fortunes-freebsd-classic/blob/main/data/fortunes) database
And also from Brian Kernighan's "UNIX: A History and a Memoir"

## SEE ALSO

[fortune(6)](https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=fortune&manpath=FreeBSD+14.0-current),

[strfile(8)](https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=strfile)

## HISTORY

These data files are intended to be used with the [PNU project](https://github.com/HubTou/PNU)'s

re-implementation of the [fortune](https://github.com/HubTou/fortune) command.

## LICENSE

The original materials were fetched from miscellaneous Internet web sites.

## AUTHORS

[Hubert Tournier](https://github.com/HubTou) for the package.

Many people for the fortune files contents, though the following people stand out:

* [Eric S. Raymond](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_S._Raymond)

* [Mike Gancarz](https://www.linkedin.com/in/mike-gancarz-66a1204/)

* [Doug McIlroy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_McIlroy)

* [Peter H. Salus](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_H._Salus)

* [Brian Kernighan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Kernighan)

* [Rob Pike](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Pike)

* and, of course, last but by no means least, [Dennis M. Ritchie](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Ritchie) and [Ken Thompson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Thompson), without whom none of this would have been possible !