verse(1)

✨ verse(1) ✨

okay bestie, so like — manual name is verse from the General Commands Manual section, and it's literally the cutest little devotional tool ever 💖

🌸 NAME 🌸

verse — displays a daily devotional verse from scripture 🕊️✨

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

verse

that's it. that's the whole thing. no flags, no args, no drama. she's low maintenance 👑

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

verse pulls a verse out of the database sitting pretty at /usr/share/verse/daily.verse and shows you the one that's specific for the current date. so like, today's verse, for today. very on brand, very main character of it 🌈

🦋 INTEGRATION 🦋

so here's the vibe: if you invoke verse from /etc/profile, then the daily devotional verse will pop up on every login for every user. surprise blessing for the whole system, no cap 💫

alternatively, you could drop the invocation of verse into a user's .profile and let each user decide for themselves whether they want verse in their life or not. autonomy! consent! we love to see it 🫶

⚠️ okay but listen, this part matters: you will run into trouble if you have dialin users whose scripts call pppd and you put the verse call into /etc/profile. the output might confuse the ppp programs 😭 like, the ppp scripts are NOT ready for scripture. it's giving chaos. so don't do that.

👑 AUTHOR 👑

(of the verse program, not the database — important distinction, bestie 💀)

Christoph Lameter <clameter@debian.org> 💌

and that's the whole page, babe — this one's from the DEBIAN source, titled Bible Verse, and it lives in section verse(1). go forth and get your daily verse, you absolute icon 🎀💖✨