fortune-rs/readme.md

Fortune-mod (in rust)

This is a clone of the original fortune command found on many unix systems

It's primarily an educational project in which i aim to completely reimplement the command.

Progress

• Print a fortune from a fortunes file
• Specify a cutoff for what is considered a short fortune (the -n flag)
• Specify whether a short or a long fortune should be printed (the -l flag)
• Wait n amount of seconds before the program exits (the -w flag)
• Allow to filter with a pattern (the -m flag)
• Ignore case for the pattern (the -i flag)
• Allow multiple fortune cookie files
• Implement the -f flag

Installing

Prerequisites:

• rust
• clang
• pkg-config
• openssl

Build:

cargo install https://github.com/runebaas/fortune-mod.rs.git 

Fortune files

Place your fortune files in one of the following locations:

• *nix
  • /usr/share/fortune
  • /usr/share/games/fortunes
  • ./fortunes
• windows
  • ./fortunes
  • ./cookies