It's like the
classic fortune
program, but it's written in Rust (as a learning exercise). It also
uses a Yaml-format fortune database.
fortunelike outputs a random entry from the fortune database. The
database path can be chosen with the -f / --dbfile option or by
setting the FORTUNELIKE_DB environment variable.
$ fortunelike -f example_db.yaml
You find yourself reading a confusing message.
If no database path is provided, fortunelike first defaults to
$HOME/.config/fortunelike-db and then /etc/fortunelike-db. If no
database at all is found, or if the first one that is found does not
exist or cannot be parsed, a [?] will be output.
fortunelike usually ends its output with a newline; if you don't
want this, pass the -i / --inline option. This is particularly
useful if you want to include the fortune in the middle of some other
text.
$ echo "Insert some $(fortunelike -i -f words_db.yaml) text."
Insert some banana text.
The fortune database file is a list of strings in Yaml format. See
example_db.yaml and words_db.yaml for examples.