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From: karish@forel.stanford.edu (Chuck Karish)
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Subject: Re: Printing of a random quote.
Summary: fortune
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Date: 16 Dec 89 08:48:42 GMT
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In article <1989Dec16.064319.21721@agate.berkeley.edu> c60c-4ay@e260-1b
(Raja S Kushalnagar) wrote:
|I have a large file having lots of quotes, in the format: 
|%%
|...... quote ............
|%%
|...... quote ............
|%%
|
|and so on.  I could write a C program to print a quote at random.  But I was
|wondering if it could be done with Unix commands or awk alone.  Could it?

The `fortune' program was written for exactly this purpose.

Available from uunet by anonymous FTP (comp.sources.games/volume1/fortune/*)

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