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+Once you save churchfathers file to your computputer run the following command from the terminal in the directory your file is located
+
+strfile churchfathers
+
+This will create churchfathers.dat
+
+If you type fortune /pathtoyourfile/churchfathers
+
+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
+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
+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
+ 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.
+
+ If you want to add more quotes just edit the churchfathers file. Between each quote there should be a single line with a single %
+ Once you are done editing rerun strfile churchfathers to add the additional quotes to the dat file.
+