bash.org is a collection of funny quotes from IRC.
WARNING: some of the quotes contain "adult" jokes... may be embarrassing if your boss sees them...
Thanks to Chen for the idea and initial version!
This script downloads a page with random quotes, filters the html to retrieve just one liners quotes and outputs the first one.
Just barely under the required 255 chars :)
Improvment:
You can replace the head -1 at the end by:
awk 'length($0)>0 {printf( $0 "\n%%\n" )}' > bash_quotes.txt
which will separate the quotes with a "%" and place it in the file.
and then:
strfile bash_quotes.txt
which will make the file ready for the fortune command
and then you can:
fortune bash_quotes.txt
which will give you a random quote from those in the downloaded file.
I download a file periodically and then use the fortune in .bashrc so I see a funny quote every time I open a terminal.
Show Sample Output
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