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Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think
Abraham Lincoln would be doing if he were alive today?
(1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
(2) Advising the President.
(3) Desperately clawing at the inside of his coffin.
-- David Letterman
Distribution: slackware64 13.37 and -current, Dragonfly BSD
Posts: 1,810
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fortune is a script, it doesn't execute commands. So there is nothing to worry about.
Yes I know this - I don't think the sarcasm gets through in certain posts
Although fortunes are just messages seeing this on screen may elicit some panic - or maybe not
One of the first things I do when installing another distro is get fortunes going in the terminal. On Ubuntu & Debian I edit ~/.bashrc, using the example from the Advanced Bash Scripting Guide, and for Cygwin on XP I just more or less copy Slack's script to Cygwin's /etc/profile.d.
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