I have some random rude comments which I want to display at login. I am
trying to use the fortunes-mod package to achieve this, but am having
difficulty transforming the (plain text) file that contains the comments
into something suitable for the fortune program. I tried putting a '%'
(percentage - in case that symbol doesn't travel) on each blank line
between each comment, then running
strfile <filename>
which gave the following (discouraging) output:
"<filename>.dat" created
There was 1 string
Longest string: 41927 bytes
Shortest string: 41927 bytes
I also tried:
/usr/games/fortune <filename>.dat
expecting it to just dump the whole file, but instead got
fortune:<filename>.dat not a fortune file or directory
Could someone please point me in the right direction to create a fortune
file from my own gibberish.
Cheers
Rich
ps I did rtfm for fortune and for strfile, and am non the wiser.
