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author | ru <ru@FreeBSD.org> | 2007-11-07 12:08:03 +0000 |
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committer | ru <ru@FreeBSD.org> | 2007-11-07 12:08:03 +0000 |
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diff --git a/games/fortune/fortune/fortune.6 b/games/fortune/fortune/fortune.6 index 9c616c6..462a8e6 100644 --- a/games/fortune/fortune/fortune.6 +++ b/games/fortune/fortune/fortune.6 @@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ .\" @(#)fortune.6 8.3 (Berkeley) 4/19/94 .\" $FreeBSD$ .\" -.Dd April 19, 1994 +.Dd November 7, 2007 .Dt FORTUNE 6 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ Epigrams are divided into several categories, where each category is subdivided into those which are potentially offensive and those which are not. The options are as follows: -.Bl -tag -width flag +.Bl -tag -width indent .It Fl a Choose from all lists of maxims, both offensive and not. (See the @@ -66,7 +66,8 @@ option for more information on offensive fortunes.) .It Fl D Enable additional debugging output. Specify this option multiple times for more verbose output. -Only available if compiled with -DDEBUG. +Only available if compiled with +.Li -DDEBUG . .It Fl e Consider all fortune files to be of equal size (see discussion below on multiple files). @@ -75,7 +76,7 @@ Print out the list of files which would be searched, but do not print a fortune. .It Fl l Long dictums only. -.It Fl m +.It Fl m Ar pattern Print out all fortunes which match the regular expression .Ar pattern . See @@ -116,13 +117,13 @@ to guarantee that the message can be read before the screen is cleared. The user may specify alternate sayings. You can specify a specific file, a directory which contains one or more files, or the special word -.Em all +.Cm all which says to use all the standard databases. Any of these may be preceded by a percentage, which is a number .Ar N between 0 and 100 inclusive, followed by a -.Ar % . -If it is, there will be a +.Ql % . +If it is, there will be an .Ar N percent probability that an adage will be picked from that file or directory. @@ -132,61 +133,56 @@ and/or directories, in which case the probability of selecting from one of them will be based on their relative sizes. .Pp As an example, given two databases -.Em funny +.Pa funny and -.Em not-funny , +.Pa not-funny , with -.Em funny +.Pa funny twice as big, saying -.Bd -literal -offset indent -fortune funny not-funny -.Ed +.Pp +.Dl "fortune funny not-funny" .Pp will get you fortunes out of -.Em funny +.Pa funny two-thirds of the time. The command -.Bd -literal -offset indent -fortune 90% funny 10% not-funny -.Ed +.Pp +.Dl "fortune 90% funny 10% not-funny" .Pp will pick out 90% of its fortunes from -.Em funny +.Pa funny (the -.Dq 10% not-funny +.Dq Li "10% not-funny" is unnecessary, since 10% is all that is left). The .Fl e option says to consider all files equal; thus -.Bd -literal -offset indent -fortune -e funny not-funny -.Ed +.Pp +.Dl "fortune -e funny not-funny" .Pp is equivalent to -.Bd -literal -offset indent -fortune 50% funny 50% not-funny -.Ed +.Pp +.Dl "fortune 50% funny 50% not-funny" .Sh ENVIRONMENT -.Bl -tag -width Pa -compact -.It FORTUNE_PATH -The search path for the data files. It is a colon-separated list -of directories in which +.Bl -tag -width ".Ev FORTUNE_PATH" +.It Ev FORTUNE_PATH +The search path for the data files. +It is a colon-separated list of directories in which .Nm -looks for data files. If not set it will default to /usr/games/fortune. +looks for data files. +If not set it will default to +.Pa /usr/games/fortune . If none of the directories specified exist, it will print a warning and exit. .El .Sh FILES -.Bl -tag -width Pa -compact +.Bl -tag -width ".Pa /usr/share/games/fortune/*" .It Pa /usr/games/fortune -.Pp .It Pa /usr/share/games/fortune/* the fortunes databases (those files ending -.Dq -o +.Dq Pa -o contain the -.Bf -symbolic -offensive -.Ef +.Sy offensive fortunes) .El .Sh SEE ALSO |