terminal quotes+ANSI pictures

[red123]

I am wondering where can I find the bash shell code / program to generate the quotes+ANSI pictures every time I open the terminal? I want to port it to tcsh which is what I am using because I am more familiar with its syntax.

[vincent]

Bash reads either /etc/bash.bashrc or ~/.bashrc at startup, and it'll show those quotes (fortunes) and the cow picture (cowsay) if the following is present in either file:

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if [ -x /usr/games/fortune ]; then
/usr/games/fortune | /usr/games/cowsay -n; echo
fi

So all you have to do is to find the equivalent config file that tcsh uses, and dump the above code into that file. I've never used tcsh, but I'd presume that you'd be looking for either /etc/csh.cshrc or ~/.cshrc.

[red123]

Thanks. I did not know what exactly the program was called so I didn't know where to start looking in the system bash.bashrc file =)