SPRUCH(6)

📦 version 0.36, in debian bookworm, ubuntu jammy, ubuntu noble

✨ SPRUCH(6) ✨

okay bestie, welcome to spruch, the manual page for the Debian GNU/Linux era of two little scripts that hand you a random German saying and just... vibe. 🎀

💖 NAME 💖

spruch — print a random German adage

regeln — print a random German peasant's maxim

like. two whole scripts. one for wise old sayings, one for chaotic farmer wisdom. both iconic. 🧚

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

spruch [-x] [-aefilosw] [-n length] [ -m pattern] [[n%] file/dir/all]
regeln [-iw] [ -m pattern]

no cap, that's the whole shape of it. the flags go where they go. 💅

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so here's the tea: these scripts call fortune(6), and which database they hand over depends on what you ask for 👑

  • spruch — a German adage database
  • regeln — database of funny German peasant's maxims

...but that only happens if your locale settings point to 'de' or 'de_DE'. otherwise, fortune(6) gets called with the default database instead. lowkey tragic for your German-quote needs but that's the rule. 🙈

✨ and if you wanna force the German vibes no matter what your locale thinks it is? use the -x option and you can enforce German cookies independent from the locale settings. the cookies are non-negotiable. periodt. 🍓

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

  • fortune.en(6)
  • locale(1)

go read those too, iykyk 💜

👑 AUTHOR 👑

spruch was written by Andreas Tille <tille@debian.org>.

this manual page was created by Roland Rosenfeld <roland@debian.org> for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others). bestie said "here's the docs, use them wherever, i'm not gatekeeping" 🫶

and that's a wrap, fr fr — this page came from the Debian Project, dated July 2000. old money. legendary. main character energy since Y2K. 💖✨🎀🦋

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