1 Once you save churchfathers file to your computputer run the following command from the terminal in the directory your file is located
5 This will create churchfathers.dat
7 If you type fortune /pathtoyourfile/churchfathers
9 A "fortune" in this case a saying from the Church Fathers will be generated at the command line. You can pipe this into other programs such as cowsay or xcowsa
10 y. I added to my .zshrc file so every time I start a new terminal I get a saying of a church father. I also created an alias for clear so every time I clear
11 my terminal I get a saying from a church father. You can create a simple script that pipes fortune into xcowsay or notify-file to get a popup in your xwindow
12 session based on either an action or based on a time frame. There is a php version of fortune that allows you to add random sayings to your website.
14 If you want to add more quotes just edit the churchfathers file. Between each quote there should be a single line with a single %
15 Once you are done editing rerun strfile churchfathers to add the additional quotes to the dat file.
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