virtual-fortunes from a future past

virtual-fortunes is a stripped down version of Ken Arnold's BSD classic fortune. It parses the cookie jar directly, no index required.

Installation

For the moment, you have to build virtual-fortunes yourself. This means you need a Swift toolchain installed. If you are on macOS, you are in luck.

$ git clone https://github.com/motform/virtual-fortunes.git
$ cd virtual-fortunes
$ swift build -c release -Xswiftc -static-stdlib
$ cd .build/release
$ cp -f virtualfortunes /usr/local/bin/virtual-fortunes

To make a the fortunes file into an environmental variable, follow the appropreate instructions for your shell.

Bash/ZSH

Add the following to your .rc:

export FORTUNES_FILE="path/to/virtual-fortunes-jar"

Fish

Run the following command:

set -Ux FORTUNES_FILE "path/to/virtual-fortunes-jar"

Usage

Run virtual-futures from your terminal a bit more body into your organs. Use it as a prompt or greeting for maximum slogan density.

By default, quotes are shown without context (marks and attributions). Context is enabled with the -c or --context flag.

TODO

• Larger cookie jar
• History, so that one can get the context of the most recent quote
• Formatting options.
• Flag to filter fortune sizes