Re: Getting fortune to run when opening a terminal

On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 11:17:21AM -0300, 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 .

.bash_profile is run only on login shells. Use .bashrc is you want it
for *every* console:

,----[ from my .bashrc ]
| echo
| echo "Fortune cookie:"
| echo
| fortune -a
| echo
`----

Regards,
Andrei
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