How to get rid of quotes in bash?
 

Every time I open a console window I get this random quote from someone and then I get my prompt. How do I disable this quote and what file is it comming from?

you mean fortune?
run fortune at the prompt, and see if thats it.
look for it in your /etc/profile

just uninstall the bsd games package. Unless you play those old text games...

is the quote on the screen or in your head?

I found that it was fortune and my profile has a loop that includes additional shell scripts when bash starts and one of whihc is one for fortune. I am currently trying to prevent the inclusion of that script. Thanks for the help. :cool:

To kill the fortune stuff...

as root

cd /etc/profile.d

chmod -444 bsd*

That will kill it.

HTH

Thats interesting abyss, I could try that instead, didn't think of that.

/me still can't understand why anyone wouldn't want the fortunes :}

Cheers,
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