Package: fortune-mod
Version: 1:1.99.1-3
Followup-For: Bug #353980
When the working directory is full of foo and foo.dat fortune
databases, the full path works as expected.
$ fortune $PWD
Computers don't introduce order anywhere as much as they expose
opportunities.
-- Alan J. Perlis
The ./ meta-directory works, after printing silly errors:
$ fortune ./
./: No such file or directory
./: Illegal seek
I can't smell sarcasm over IRC.
Get closer to the screen.
-- http://bash.org/?quote=136804
The . meta-file fails, and fortune instead uses the default databases
in /usr/share/games/fortunes:
$ fortune .
Kirkland, Illinois, law forbids bees to fly over the village or through
any of its streets.
Going up a directory and giving a partial path also works:
$ cd ..
$ ls -1 fortunes
angry-flower
angry-flower.dat
angst-technology
angst-technology.dat
bash.org
bash.org.dat
[...]
$ fortune fortunes/
Your momma so dumb, she set her buffer length to a
minimal octal instead of puging the cache.
-- http://bash.org/?quote=1611
$ # This next is using /usr/share/games/fortunes/fortunes.dat :-/
$ fortune fortunes
You are number 6! Who is number one?
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (990, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-3-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages fortune-mod depends on:
ii fortunes [fortune-cookie- 1:1.99.1-3 Data files containing fortune cook
ii fortunes-bg [fortune-cook 1.1 Bulgarian data files for fortune
ii fortunes-bofh-excuses [fo 1.2-1 BOFH excuses for fortune
ii fortunes-br [fortune-cook 20061004 Fortune files in Portuguese
ii fortunes-cs [fortune-cook 2.0-1 Czech and Slovak data files for fo
ii fortunes-de [fortune-cook 0.23-1 German data files for fortune
ii fortunes-debian-hints [fo 1.7 Debian Hints for fortune
ii fortunes-eo [fortune-cook 20020729-4 Collection of esperanto fortunes.
ii fortunes-eo-ascii [fortun 20020729-4 Collection of esperanto fortunes (
ii fortunes-eo-iso3 [fortune 20020729-4 Collection of esperanto fortunes (
ii fortunes-es [fortune-cook 1.26 Spanish fortune database
ii fortunes-es-off [fortune- 1.26 Spanish fortune cookies (Offensive
ii fortunes-fr [fortune-cook 0.64 French fortunes cookies
ii fortunes-ga [fortune-cook 0.7 Irish (Gaelige) data files for for
ii fortunes-it [fortune-cook 1.99-2 Data files containing Italian fort
ii fortunes-it-off [fortune- 1.99-2 Data files containing Italian fort
ii fortunes-mario [fortune-c 0.20-6 Fortunes files from Mario
ii fortunes-min [fortune-coo 1:1.99.1-3 Data files containing fortune cook
ii fortunes-off [fortune-coo 1:1.99.1-3 Data files containing offensive fo
ii fortunes-pl [fortune-cook 0.0.20071015-1 Polish data files for fortune
ii fortunes-ru [fortune-cook 1.52-1 Russian data files for fortune
ii libc6 2.7-5 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii librecode0 3.6-14 Shared library on which recode is
fortune-mod recommends no packages.
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