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Sure enough, thanks.
(This is the paragraph from the fortune man page that misled me:
"The fortunes are output to standard output, while the names
of the file from which each fortune comes are printed to
standard error. Either or both can be redirected; if stan-
dard output is redirected to a file, the result is a valid
fortunes database file.")
Walt Mankowski wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 15, 1999 at 12:09:07AM -0500, Eugene Sotirescu wrote:
> > . . . I can't seem to be able to build a fortune database.
> > Here's what I'm trying (RH 5.2):
> >
> > /usr/share/games/fortunes
> > # /usr/games/fortune test > test.dat
> > fortune: test corrupted
> >
> > (test is a copy of an existing fortune file, called education).
> >
> > Anybody into this kind of frivolousness?
>
> Why not?
>
> fortune is used to read fortunes, but it isn't used to create the
> database in the first place. For that you need the strfile command.
> (It's in /usr/sbin in my RH 5.1.)
>
> Just say
>
> /usr/sbin/strfile test
>
> and you should have a new file called test.dat. Then
>
> fortune test
>
> should give you an education fortune. Hey, at least it worked for me.
> Good luck.
>
> Walt Mankowski
>
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