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Created April 8, 2011 11:15
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Generates a random fortune spoken by a random cow
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random_cow_fortune.sh
fortune -s -n 100 | cowsay -f `ls -1 /usr/share/cowsay/cows/ | replace ".cow" "" | tail -n +\`echo $(( 1 + (\\\`od -An -N2 -i /dev/random\\\`) % (\\\`ls -1 /usr/share/cowsay/cows/ | wc -l\\\`) ))\` | head -1`
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