dotfiles/zsh/.oh-my-zsh/plugins/hitchhiker

hitchhiker

This plugin adds quotes from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, from Douglas Adams.

To use it, add hitchhiker to the plugins array in your zshrc file:

plugins=(... hitchhiker)

Aliases

• hitchhiker: displays a quote from the book using fortune.
• hitchhiker_cow: displays a quote from the book using cowthink.

$ hitchhiker_cow
 _______________________________________
( "OK, so ten out of ten for style, but )
( minus several million for good        )
( thinking, yeah? "                     )
 ---------------------------------------
        o   ^__^
         o  (oo)\_______
            (__)\       )\/\
                ||----w |
                ||     ||

Requirements

• fortune and strfile.
• cowthink if using the hitchhiker_cow command.

Credits

Fortune file: Andreas Gohr andi@splitbrain.org (splitbrain.org)

Spelling and formatting fixes: grok@resist.ca

Original quotes from:

• https://web.archive.org/web/20120106083254/http://tatooine.fortunecity.com/vonnegut/29/hitch/parhaat.html
• https://web.archive.org/web/20011112065737/http://www-personal.umd.umich.edu/~nhughes/dna/faqs/quotedir.html