Copy of Fortunes File
Copy of Fortunes File
1 Words are the voice of heart
2 A modem is a baudy house.
3 A truly wise man never plays leapfrog with a Unicorn.
4 A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
5 An elephant is a mouse with an operating system.
6 * UNIX was a Trademark of Bell Laboratories.
7 Any time things appear to going better, you have overlooked something.
8 Life vs. death.
9 Life vs death.
10 Armadillo: Supplying weapons to a Spanish pickle.
11 E Pluribus UNIX
12 Every program is a part of some other program, and rarely fits.
13 Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.
14 He sells C-Shells by the C-Shore.
15 Helping others ==> we all benefit
16 Disk crisis, please clean up!
17 If at first you don't succeed, give up, don't be a darn fool.
18 Love the Sea? I dote upon it - from the beach
19 Line printer paper is strongest at preforations.
20 Man Year: 730 people working feverishly until noon.
21 Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
22 Nudists are people who wear one-button suits.
23 Old programmers never die. They just branch to a new address.
24 The future isn't what it used to be!
25 On a clear disk you can seek forever.
26 She sells sea shells by the sea shore.
27 I must have slipped a disk; my pack hurts.
28 Satire doesn't look pretty upon a tombstone.
29 No one can feel as helpless as the owner of a sick goldfish.
30 The rain in Portugal falls mainly in the mountains.
31 The rain in Spain falls mainly in the plain.
32 Time is about the stream I go a-fishing in.
33 Three witches had three watches. Which witch was watching which watch?
34 You might have mail
35 Remember, UNIX spelled backwards is XINU.
36 The End
Notes:
This page is a list of phrases which were generated by that fortunes command. This data is referenced for some of the first set of regular expression examples we’ll examine.
Please be advised, that some of the examples presented could be considered useless! However, these useless examples do a far better job in illustrating the power of UNIX regular expressions.