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Thanks Stephan, that has solved the problem. Now I need to figure out how to substitute my own file for that in the script.

Momist

Thanks Stephan Fabel, that solved my question.

For anyone else trying to do this, here is the process necessary for utilising your own 'fortune' file.

The fortune files available to the /usr/games/fortune program are stored in /usr/share/games/fortunes. There are several in there, which can remain.

Place your own file in the same directory. The file must be composed of the text sequences you require, separated into blocks with the % symbol, and hard 'carriage returns' from your text editor. Have a quick look at /usr/share/games/fortunes/fortunes for the layout. For some reason, my file imported from a windows machine had some other encoding for the line ends, and had to have all the blocks re-defined.

Then run the strfile command as follows:
user@computer:~$ sudo strfile -r -c% /usr/share/games/fortunes/filename

This will create a filename.dat file in the same place. -r randomises the order. -c% confirms the % sign as the block delimiter (probably not necessary, as it is supposed to be the default).

Now a simple script stored somewhere (home/scripts?) is called from Evolution. Here is the script I'm using:

#!/bin/bash

echo "<div>-- </div>"

echo "<p>Ian</p>"

echo "<pre>"
fortune peakoil
echo "</pre>"

As you can see, peakoil is the name of the file I wish fortune to use.

HTH someone.

Ian