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An interesting Harper's message of the day when I open a shell.

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Setup

crontab to grab updates on the first of the month

10 0 1 * * curl -s https://visnup-harpers.web.val.run > $HOME/.motd

~/.config/fish/functions/fish_greeting.fish to pick a random line on new fish shell; other shell support left to the reader

function fish_greeting set line (random 1 (cat ~/.motd | wc -l)) awk "NR==$line" ~/.motd | fold -s -w (tput cols) end
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