Baughn comments on Best of Rationality Quotes, 2014 Edition - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Baughn 02 March 2015 06:37:03PM 0 points [-]

How do I use it? Fortune is being obstructive.

Comment author: Huluk 03 March 2015 05:52:06AM 2 points [-]

First, you have to find the path where fortune files are stored. In the man file of fortune, there is a chapter "FILES" in which you can find the default path for fortune files. Your path may be different, maybe you have to search for it. Put the files "rationality" and "rationality.dat" into this path and test using the command fortune rationality. If it doesn't work, you can try to generate your own .dat file using the command strfile rationality.

I'd be interested to know whether this worked for you and what steps where necessary, since I didn't try this with different fortune installations.

Comment author: Baughn 03 March 2015 07:40:46PM 0 points [-]

That worked. Running "strfile rationality" on my system produces a different rationality.dat than the one you have checked into your repository, but "fortune rationality" works now.

(It doesn't need to be copied to a system path.)