🥠 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
✨ New CLI with subcommands for config, file initialization and cache management

📦 Installation

🐧 AUR (Arch Linux)

yay -S rfortune
# or
paru -S rfortune

🍺 Homebrew (macOS/Linux)

brew tap umpire274/rfortune
brew 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

🚀 Usage

rfortune [OPTIONS]
rfortune <SUBCOMMAND>

Running rfortune without subcommands prints a random fortune from the default file (rfortune.dat).

🧩 Options & Subcommands

Command / Option	Description
`-f`, `--file <PATH>`	Use a custom fortune file instead of the default
`config init`	Create the configuration file with default options
`file init`	Create a sample default fortune file (`rfortune.dat`)
`cache clear`	Remove all cached last-used fortunes
`-V`, `--version`	Show version information
`-h`, `--help`	Show help message

🧪 Examples

# Print a random fortune from the default file
rfortune

# Print a random fortune from a specific file
rfortune --file ~/fortunes/misc

# Initialize configuration file
rfortune config init

# Create a sample default fortune file
rfortune file init

# Clear all cached last-used fortunes
rfortune cache clear

📁 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 0.5.0