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IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 23.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 24.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 25.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 26.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 27.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 28.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 29.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 30.\" 31.\" @(#)fortune.6 8.3 (Berkeley) 4/19/94 32.\" $FreeBSD: src/games/fortune/fortune/fortune.6,v 1.9.2.6 2001/12/14 14:26:32 ru Exp $ 33.\" 34.Dd April 19, 1994 35.Dt FORTUNE 6 36.Os 37.Sh NAME 38.Nm fortune 39.Nd "print a random, hopefully interesting, adage" 40.Sh SYNOPSIS 41.Nm 42.Op Fl aDefilosw 43.Op Fl m Ar pattern 44.Oo 45.Op Ar \&N% 46.Ar file/dir/all 47.Oc 48.Sh DESCRIPTION 49When 50.Nm 51is run with no arguments it prints out a random epigram. 52Epigrams are divided into several categories, where each category 53is subdivided into those which are potentially offensive and those 54which are not. 55The options are as follows: 56.Bl -tag -width flag 57.It Fl a 58Choose from all lists of maxims, both offensive and not. 59(See the 60.Fl o 61option for more information on offensive fortunes.) 62.It Fl D 63Enable additional debugging output. 64Specify this option multiple times for more verbose output. 65Only available if compiled with -DDEBUG. 66.It Fl e 67Consider all fortune files to be of equal size (see discussion below 68on multiple files). 69.It Fl f 70Print out the list of files which would be searched, but don't 71print a fortune. 72.It Fl l 73Long dictums only. 74.It Fl m 75Print out all fortunes which match the regular expression 76.Ar pattern . 77See 78.Xr regex 3 79for a description of patterns. 80.It Fl o 81Choose only from potentially offensive aphorisms. 82.Bf -symbolic 83Please, please, please request a potentially offensive fortune if and 84only if you believe, deep down in your heart, that you are willing 85to be offended. 86(And that if you are not willing, you'll just quit using 87.Fl o 88rather than give us 89grief about it, okay?) 90.Ef 91.Bd -unfilled -offset indent 92\&... let us keep in mind the basic governing philosophy 93of The Brotherhood, as handsomely summarized in these words: 94we believe in healthy, hearty laughter -- at the expense of 95the whole human race, if needs be. Needs be. 96 --H. Allen Smith, "Rude Jokes" 97.Ed 98.It Fl s 99Short apothegms only. 100.It Fl i 101Ignore case for 102.Fl m 103patterns. 104.It Fl w 105Wait before termination for an amount of time calculated from the 106number of characters in the message. 107This is useful if it is executed as part of the logout procedure 108to guarantee that the message can be read before the screen is cleared. 109.El 110.Pp 111The user may specify alternate sayings. 112You can specify a specific file, a directory which contains one or 113more files, or the special word 114.Em all 115which says to use all the standard databases. 116Any of these may be preceded by a percentage, which is a number 117.Ar N 118between 0 and 100 inclusive, followed by a 119.Ar % . 120If it is, there will be a 121.Ar N 122percent probability that an adage will be picked from that file 123or directory. 124If the percentages do not sum to 100, and there are specifications 125without percentages, the remaining percent will apply to those files 126and/or directories, in which case the probability of selecting from 127one of them will be based on their relative sizes. 128.Pp 129As an example, given two databases 130.Em funny 131and 132.Em not-funny , 133with 134.Em funny 135twice as big, saying 136.Bd -literal -offset indent 137fortune funny not-funny 138.Ed 139.Pp 140will get you fortunes out of 141.Em funny 142two-thirds of the time. 143The command 144.Bd -literal -offset indent 145fortune 90% funny 10% not-funny 146.Ed 147.Pp 148will pick out 90% of its fortunes from 149.Em funny 150(the 151.Dq 10% not-funny 152is unnecessary, since 10% is all that's left). 153The 154.Fl e 155option says to consider all files equal; 156thus 157.Bd -literal -offset indent 158fortune -e funny not-funny 159.Ed 160.Pp 161is equivalent to 162.Bd -literal -offset indent 163fortune 50% funny 50% not-funny 164.Ed 165.Sh FILES 166.Bl -tag -width Pa -compact 167.It Pa /usr/games/fortune 168.Pp 169.It Pa /usr/share/games/fortune/* 170the fortunes databases (those files ending 171.Dq -o 172contain the 173.Bf -symbolic 174offensive 175.Ef 176fortunes) 177.El 178.Sh SEE ALSO 179.Xr regcomp 3 , 180.Xr regex 3 , 181.Xr strfile 8 182