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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting What is "fortune" for UNIX ???? Post 302278828 by nsharath on Wednesday 21st of January 2009 09:13:30 AM
Old 01-21-2009
Bug What is "fortune" for UNIX ????

Hello sir,
I was reading about "fortune". From the following link:-
fortune (Unix) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

It was very informative.I want to install the package if available.Can you please give me the link download.Can you tell me in what kind of applications we make use of it.I want to know more about it !!!!

Last edited by joeyg; 01-21-2009 at 10:46 AM.. Reason: fixed the url link
 

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MIRRORTOOL(1)							OMT documentation.						     MIRRORTOOL(1)

NAME
mirrortool.pl - OpaL Mirror Tool (OMT) DESCRIPTION
Creates a mirror of a webpage. It has a number of features such as link rewriting and more. (See the options below). USAGE
mirrortool.pl [options] [url] [options] [url] [...] OPTIONS
--images : Include <img src=xxx>:s in the download. (default) --noimages : Do not include <img src=xxx>:s in the download. --depth n : Maximum recursion depth. (default 1) --store "regexp" : Files matching regexp are actually stored locally. : It is possible to | separate (with or). --rewrite "from=>to" : Urls are rewritten using this rules. : It is possible to | separate (with or). : Do not rewrite the dir, because that it will affect : later lookup. Have to fix this sometime. --what "regexp" : Files matching regexp are downloaded and traversed. : It is possible to | separate (with or). --dir basedir : Where to store local files. --nohostcheck : Do not check if url points to other host. --notreecheck : Do not check if url points to other dirtree. --force : Overwrite all files. --debug : Print debug-messages. --retry n : Number of times an url will be retried (default 1) --auth user:pass : use Basic Authentication --proxy url : Use a proxy server (like http://u:p@localhost/). --help : Print this text. AUTHOR
Ola Lundqvist <opal@lysator.liu.se> SEE ALSO
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