Script to generate an RSS feed containing a few `fortune -s` items. Use it as a cron job to generate something you can see in a ticker (e.g. on Kodi)
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README.md

To install

./install.sh

Also make sure /usr/games/fortune exists (for example, on Ubuntu nowadays you run sudo apt install fortune-mod in order to install it).

To run

/PATH/TO/makefortune.sh would generate /PATH/TO/fortune.rss.

Tip: do this as a cron job, and make /PATH/TO/ accessible by web.