Sprichwörter is the German name for the same program.
proverbs
proverbs -[qc <COLOR>] (--qualify --color <COLOR>)
proverbs -f (--favorites)
proverbs -a (--add)
proverbs -h (--help)
proverbs -v (--version)
The program combines the beginnings and the endings of proverbs randomly picked from a list. The result is a phrase which is still recognizable as "kind of a proverb" but without claiming to convey any real message, let alone "wisdom".
Yes. It is intended as a humorous waste of time. You can, for example, call proverbs from your .bashrc file.
When called on the command-prompt as proverbs without any options, a newly generated proverb will be printed out on screen.
At the time of this writing (october 2019), original ('real') proverbs must conform to the pattern
"someone or something" | "does or is something"
Just execute the program a few times on the command-line, without arguments, to get the idea.
For the time, original proverbs are grouped with respect to their subject (someone or something), which is uncountable or in singular for the first group (like in “Fortune | favors the bold”), in plural for the second group (like in “All Roads | lead to Rome”).
The hidden directory .proverbs in the user's home-directory can contain three types of file. For the English version, these are:
Source-code: | "Proverbs" had been developed in Ruby and is distributed as a ruby-gem. If you installed the program from the gem-file (with gem install), then you find all the source-files in the gem-folder for your Ruby-version. Otherwise, you can also unpack the gem-file (with tar), then uncompress the data-archive and take a look at the files in the resulting, new folders bin and lib. |
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License: | "Proverbs" is released under the conditions of the GNU General Public License, version 3.0. |
Version: | 1.6 of 2019/10/15 |
Author: | "Proverbs" has been programmed by Michael Uplawski <michael.uplawski@uplawski.eu>. The German parlor game "Verrückte Sprichwörter" ("Crazy Proverbs") was the principal inspiration for the project. |
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