This script will show you a very nicely format and unique daily quote on your shell screen

daily-quote-shell.sh

#!/bin/bash

# This script will show you a very nicely format unique quote of the day on your shell screen. 
# Sample Screenshot =>  https://ibb.co/mGRQnNp


#Steps to setup
#1) Save this script file in your machine
#2) Set permissions of file by chmod +x daily-quote-shell.sh
#3) Open file ~/.bash_profile
#4) paste the path of this file as . i.e. /home/daily-quote-shell.sh

# Set Path where this shell script has been saved 
QUOTE_FILE=~/Desktop/scripts/motivator

#Set Your Name
NAME="Abdul"

#It will create temporary file to save the quote
QUOTE_FILE="$QUOTE_FILE/quote.txt"
COLUMNS=$(tput cols) 
#Fetch the quote from API
function fetchQuote {
          
  quote=$(curl -s http://quotes.rest/qod.json?category=inspire  | jq -r '.contents.quotes[0].quote')
  author=$(curl -s http://quotes.rest/qod.json?category=inspire | jq -r '.contents.quotes[0].author')
  echo "Fetching"
  echo $quote > $1
  echo $author >> $1

}  

#Display text at center of screen
displayTextCenter() {
  termwidth="$(tput cols)"
  padding="$(printf '%0.1s' ={1..500})"
  printf '%*.*s %s %*.*s\n\n' 0 "$(((termwidth-2-${#1})/2))" "$padding" "$1" 0 "$(((termwidth-1-${#1})/2))" "$padding"
}

#Check if quote file is not present
if [ ! -f $QUOTE_FILE ]
then
  #Fetch the quote
	fetchQuote $QUOTE_FILE
else
  
  today=$(date "+%m/%d/%y")
  quoteUpdated=$(stat -f %Sm -t %D $QUOTE_FILE)

  #Check if quote fetched id older than today
	if [ "$today" != "$quoteUpdated" ];
	then
		fetchQuote $QUOTE_FILE
	fi 
fi

quote=$(cat $QUOTE_FILE | head -1)
author=$(cat $QUOTE_FILE | tail -1)

#Display welcome message
displayTextCenter "Welcome back $NAME"

#Display quote
tput setaf 2; echo -e "$quote" | fmt -c -w $COLUMNS ; tput sgr0
tput setaf 1; echo -e "$author\n" | fmt -c -w $COLUMNS; tput sgr0
seq  -f "=" -s '' $COLUMNS