GoFortune

A Fortune clone using Go!

Prerequisites

• Go

• fortune

sudo apt-get install fortune

Installation

Compile the code into an executable.

go build -o gofortune

You can discover the install path by running the go list command, as in the following example:

go list -f '{{.Target}}'

Add the Go install directory to your system's shell path.

As an alternative, you can change the install target by setting the GOBIN variable using the go env command:

go env -w GOBIN=/path/to/your/bin

Compile and install the package.

go install github.com/dimanyfantakis/gofortune

Usage

Run the application

gofortune

Or add gofortune to your ~/.bashrc file.

If you don't want to get a fortune on every new terminal session but rather once per login then you can do the following.

In the ~/.bashrc file add the following.

# Define the flag file path
flag_file="/tmp/.firstrun_$USER"

# If the flag file doesn't exist
if [ ! -f "$flag_file" ]; then
    # Execute the gofortune command
    gofortune

    # Create the flag file in /tmp
    touch "$flag_file"
fi

In the ~/.bash_logout file add the following.

flag_file="/tmp/.firstrun_$USER"

if [ -f "$flag_file" ]; then
    rm -f "$flag_file"
fi