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.TH FORTUNE 1
.SH NAME
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fortune, theo, troll \- sample lines from a file
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B fortune
[
.I file
]
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.br
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.B theo
.br
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.B troll
.SH DESCRIPTION
.I Fortune
prints a one-line aphorism chosen at random.
If a
.I file
is specified, the saying is taken from that file;
otherwise it is selected from
.BR /sys/games/lib/fortunes .
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.LP
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.I Troll
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is more specific than
.I fortune;
it specializes in inflammatory rhetoric.
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.LP
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.I Theo
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is more specific than
.I troll;
it presents insults from OpenBSD founder
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Theo de Raadt.
.SH FILES
.B /sys/games/lib/fortunes
.br
.B /sys/games/lib/fortunes.index
\ \ fast lookup table, maintained automatically
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.br
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.B /lib/theo
.br
.B /lib/troll
.SH SOURCE
.B /sys/src/cmd/fortune.c
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.br
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.br
.B /rc/bin/theo
.br
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.B /rc/bin/troll
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.SH HISTORY
.I Theo
and
.I troll
first appeared in 9front (July, 2011).
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.SH AUTHORS
Some initial trolls were provided by ChrisPBS.