Re: Getting fortune to run when opening a terminal

[andy <geek_show@dsl.pipex.com>]

Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote:
> andy wrote:
> > Hi all
> >
> > Under Slackware, whenever I would open up konsole (a terminal app), 
> > so a fortune would be displayed before the typical Bash prompt.
> >
> > Is there a way of setting it up under Debian so that it can do the 
> > same thing?
>
> Just put a call to the fortune program in ~/.bash_profile .
Thanks. Fixed with:

# call fortune:
if [ -x /usr/games/fortune ] ; then
echo ; /usr/games/fortune ; echo
fi

A

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