🥠 rFortune

rFortune is a modern, cross-platform reimplementation of the classic Unix fortune program, written in Rust.

It displays a random quote or witty phrase from a plain text file, making it perfect for terminal startup messages, scripting, or just a bit of inspiration.

🚀 Features

✅ Cross-platform: works on Linux, Windows, macOS Intel and Apple Silicon
⚡ Fast and lightweight (native Rust binary)
📁 Simple input format: one or more lines per fortune, separated by %
🌹 UTF-8 support for multilingual content
🧩 Easily extensible
🧠 Built-in cache system to avoid showing the same fortune twice in a row
✨ Supports various command-line options including file selection, cache management, version display, and more

📦 Installation

🐧 AUR (Arch Linux)

yay -S rfortune
# oppure
paru -S rfortune

🍺 Homebrew (macOS/Linux)

brew tap umpire274/rfortune
brew install rfortune

🪟 Scoop (Windows)

scoop bucket add main
scoop install rfortune

🦀 Crates.io (Rust)

cargo install rfortune

📥 Download

Precompiled binaries are available in the Releases section.

Platform	Architecture	File
Windows	x86_64	`rfortune-<version>-x86_64-pc-windows-msvc.zip`
Linux	x86_64	`rfortune-<version>-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.gz`
macOS Intel Architecture	x86_64	`rfortune-<version>-x86_64-apple-darwin.tar.gz`
macOS Apple Silicon	aarch64	`rfortune-<version>-aarch64-apple-darwin.tar.gz`

🔐 GPG Signature

All release archives are cryptographically signed with GPG.

.sig files contain the ASCII-armored detached signature for the corresponding archive.
You can verify the archive with:

gpg --verify rfortune-<version>-<target>.tar.gz.sig rfortune-<version>-<target>.tar.gz

🔑 Public Key

The releases are signed with the following GPG key:

Key ID: 423FABCE0A1921FB
Fingerprint: 8118 9716 9512 2A32 1F3D C04C 423F ABCE 0A19 21FB
Download: https://github.com/umpire274.gpg

To import the key from a keyserver:

gpg --recv-keys 423FABCE0A1921FB

Or from OpenPGP server:

gpg --keyserver keys.openpgp.org --recv-keys 423FABCE0A1921FB

Then verify the fingerprint:

gpg --fingerprint 423FABCE0A1921FB

🔐 Initialization (optional)

To create the default fortune directory and a starter rfortunes.dat file:

rfortune --init

On Linux/macOS: creates /usr/local/share/rfortune/rfortunes.dat
On Windows: creates %APPDATA%\rfortune\rfortunes.dat

🚀 Usage

rfortune [--file path/to/quotes.dat]

🧩 Options

Option	Description
`-f`, `--file`	Use a custom file of fortunes
`--init`	Create the default directory and test file
`--clear-cache`	Delete all cached quote history
`-V`, `--version`	Show version
`-h`, `--help`	Show help message

If no file is specified, the program defaults to platform-specific location.

🧪 Example

$ rfortune
Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window. — Steve Wozniak

📁 File Format

Each fortune must be on one or more lines separated by '%', like so:

%
The best way to get a good idea is to get a lot of ideas.
%
Do or do not. There is no try.
%
To iterate is human, to recurse divine.
%

You may optionally add a title at the top of the file by starting the first line with #. The title will be printed before the random quote:

# Murphy's Laws
%
Anything that can go wrong will go wrong.
%
If there's a possibility of several things going wrong, the one that will cause the most damage will be the one to go wrong.
%

🔒 License

This project is licensed under the MIT License.

💡 Contributing

Pull requests are welcome! If you’d like to add support for more languages, improve performance, or fix bugs, feel free to fork the repo and contribute.

🙌 Acknowledgments

Inspired by the classic BSD fortune program. Built with ❤️ in Rust.

rfortune 0.3.0