A short summer project to achieve fun initializion Bash terminals with random quotes from WikiQuote.

Usage

Make sure the script quoterm.sh has executable permissions. The script requests a HTML from a random Wikiquote page. It then randomly outputs a quote from a person to screen.

./quoterm.sh

Sample output:

 The trouble with theorists is, they never pay attention to the experiments!
     - Valentine Telegdi

Run on shell start-up

To run quoterm on the Bash shell startup, put quoterm.sh to some fixed location on you file sistem (say ‘/usr/local/bin’) and add the corresponding command to the end of the .bash_profile script in your home folder.

sudo cp quoterm.sh /usr/local/bin/quoterm
echo "/usr/local/bin/quoterm" >> ~/bash_profile

Test the configuration by opening a new Bash terminal:

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