On Nov 16, 2007 11:05 AM, bharder <bharder_AT_methodlogic.net> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 10:59:02AM +0900, sqweek wrote:
> > On Nov 15, 2007 5:53 AM, Chris King <colanderman_AT_gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On 11/14/07, bharder <bharder_AT_methodlogic.net> wrote:
> > > > On NetBSD, shuffle(1).
> > >
> > > Or "fortune <{ls}"... it's cross-platform ;)
> >
net> > Heh! Works on centos5 at work, not so good on NetBSD as has been
> > pointed out. Wonder what criteria it uses to determine if something is
> > a fortune file... adding a % every second line doesn't seem to help.
> > -sqweek
>
> Didn't work on my Debian Etch, though :P
>
> Nor on a FreeBSD box I just tried -- becoming less and less portable the more it's explored ;)
FreeBSD will need fdescfs mounted on /dev/fd for the <{} construct to
work if you don't have it already. Not that this will help satisfy
fortune.
-sqweek
Received on Fri Nov 16 2007 - 03:22:09 UTC
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