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.TH FORTUNE 1
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.SH NAME
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fortune, troll \- sample lines from a file
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.SH SYNOPSIS
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.B fortune
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[
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.I file
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]
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.br
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.B troll
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[
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.I file
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.SH DESCRIPTION
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.I Fortune
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prints a one-line aphorism chosen at random.
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If a
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.I file
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is specified, the saying is taken from that file;
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otherwise it is selected from
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.BR /sys/games/lib/fortunes .
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.LP
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.I
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Troll
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is more specific than
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.I fortune;
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it specializes in inflammatory rhetoric.
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.SH FILES
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.B /sys/games/lib/fortunes
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.br
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.B /sys/games/lib/fortunes.index
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\ \ fast lookup table, maintained automatically
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.br
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.B /sys/games/lib/trolls
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.SH SOURCE
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.B /sys/src/cmd/fortune.c
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.br
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.B /rc/bin/troll
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.SH AUTHORS
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Some initial trolls were provided by ChrisPBS.
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