How do you format a test file into fortune cookie style indexing?

[lullysing]

Ever since i've seen the fortune cookie lists ( like the bofh cookies, the old english cookies, etc etc) i've always been interested in making my own "cookie file".


Problem is, i've looked around but i've never been able to get some kind of "formatter" for the fortune program. I've also tryed to format it by hand, but it didn't work.

You got an hinsight i could use on this?

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[SteveR77]

The following is a fortunes file I have have used in the past.

Basically the calling function looks for a line at a time, therefore the fortune does not end until a new line is seen.

Nature teaches beasts to know their friends.
Never give an inch!
Never insult an alligator until you have crossed the river.
Never look a gift horse in the mouth. -- Saint Jerome
Never settle with words what you can accomplish with a flame thrower.
Never try to teach a pig to sing: it wastes your time and annoys the pig.
Nice guys finish last. -- Leo Durocher
No amount of genius can overcome a preoccupation with detail.
No civilized person ever goes to bed the same day he gets up.
No directory.
No evil can happen to a good man. -- Plato
No one can feel as helpless as the owner of a sick goldfish.
No problem is insoluble in all conceivable circumstances.
No use beating a dead horse.
Noblemen make promises, but peasants have to keep them. -- Russian proverb
Nobody can be as agreeable as an uninvited guest.
Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!
Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
Nothing endures like change. -- Heraclitus
Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.
Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.
Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
Nothing will dispel enthusiasm like a small admission fee.
Now and then an innocent man is sent to the Legislature.
O'Toole's dictum: "Murphy was an optimist."
Observation, not old age, brings wisdom.

 

[lullysing]

yeah, but what about the formatting? when i cat a fortune file, i get % characters to separate the cookies. Yet when i try it that way, it doesn't work.



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when someone asks for your username and password, and much *clickely clickely* is happening in the background, know enough that you should be worried.