On: Fun at the Unix Terminal

[masklinn]

Why would you even bother with that when `say` can take a string or read from stdin?

Just use

    $ say $(fortune)

or

    $ fortune | say -f-

For bonus coolness, add "-i" (it prints the lines and highlights the current word during reading).

[mfukar → masklinn]

Because it's fun spawning a new process and watching the otherwise idle cores of your box reach 0.1% usage for a millisecond.

[nerdponx → mfukar]

Don't all three of those commands spawn new processes?

[mfukar → nerdponx]

Not _shell_ processes, no.

[rbonvall → masklinn]

Not all commands accept input as arguments, so it's still a good trick to know.