fortune Command Examples

Print a random quotation (fortune-cookie style). More information: https://manned.org/fortune.

• Print a quotation:

fortune

• Print an offensive quotation:

fortune -o

• Print a long quotation:

fortune -l

• Print a short quotation:

fortune -s

• List the available quotation database files:

fortune -f

• Print a quotation from one of the database files listed by fortune -f:

fortune {{path/to/file}}