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I have known about Fortune for several years now, and I randomly thought about it today. I wondered, could I have fortune give me a fortune each time I open a new terminal window. After a little digging and worrying about it being complicated, I simply tried to just place the path of fortune into my .profile. Voila! Now, every time I open Terminal, I am greeted with a neat little fortune.

In order to do this, you'll need macports installed.

If you already have them installed, simply install fortune:

sudo port install fortune

Then, edit your ~/.profile

mate ~/.profile

Add the path to fortune at the end of the file:

/opt/local/bin/fortune

I love it! :)

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