1 .TH FORTUNE 1
2 .SH NAME
3 fortune \- sample lines from a file
4 .SH SYNOPSIS
5 .B fortune
6 [
7 .I file
8 ]
9 .SH DESCRIPTION
10 .I Fortune
11 prints a one-line aphorism chosen at random.
12 If a
13 .I file
14 is specified, the saying is taken from that file;
15 otherwise it is selected from
16 .BR \*9/lib/fortunes .
17 .SH FILES
18 .B \*9/lib/fortunes
19 .br
20 .B \*9/lib/fortunes.index
21 \ \ fast lookup table, maintained automatically
22 .SH SOURCE
23 .B \*9/src/cmd/fortune.c