The latest articles on Forem by CircusBearOnATrike (@chad_ballay). https://forem.com/chad_ballay https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=90,height=90,fit=cover,gravity=auto,format=auto/https:%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fuser%2Fprofile_image%2F189950%2Fde59616b-e3f9-47df-8d27-3be47dbc12c6.jpg https://forem.com/chad_ballay en CircusBearOnATrike Tue, 31 Dec 2019 17:13:08 +0000 https://forem.com/chad_ballay/using-fortune-for-studying-pif https://forem.com/chad_ballay/using-fortune-for-studying-pif <p><a href="https://res.cloudinary.com/practicaldev/image/fetch/s--wan4Cnjc--/c_limit%2Cf_auto%2Cfl_progressive%2Cq_auto%2Cw_880/https://thepracticaldev.s3.amazonaws.com/i/d7489sjc6ujq91gcjhng.png" class="article-body-image-wrapper"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/practicaldev/image/fetch/s--wan4Cnjc--/c_limit%2Cf_auto%2Cfl_progressive%2Cq_auto%2Cw_880/https://thepracticaldev.s3.amazonaws.com/i/d7489sjc6ujq91gcjhng.png" alt="Example"></a></p> <p>I'm studying for Comptia Security+ (SY0-501) certification as part of a retooling that I'm doing. (Working fulltime while going back to school ain't no joke.) The retooling is taking the form of degree, ctf/proof of work, and certifications. To help squeeze in some additional efficiency I've set up my terminal to pop up a flashcard each login of terms to memorize. This is accomplished using fortune, lolcat, and cowsay in conjunction with a custom fortune file. For right now, I've just grabbed a dumb list of terms to memorize but as I build my study guides, I'll flesh this out.</p> <p><a href="https://github.com/Chad-Ballay/fortune_study_guide">https://github.com/Chad-Ballay/fortune_study_guide</a></p> <h3> Install Utilities </h3> <p>Install fortune, lolcat, and cowsay using Homebrew. Only fortune is needed but the asthetics of having Lolcat and Cowsay make it better.</p> <ul> <li> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortune_(Unix)">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortune_(Unix)</a> </li> <li> <a href="https://github.com/busyloop/lolcat">https://github.com/busyloop/lolcat</a> </li> <li> <a href="https://github.com/tnalpgge/rank-amateur-cowsay">https://github.com/tnalpgge/rank-amateur-cowsay</a> </li> </ul> <div class="highlight"><pre class="highlight console"><code><span class="gp">$</span><span class="w"> </span>brew <span class="nb">install </span>fortune <span class="gp">$</span><span class="w"> </span>brew <span class="nb">install </span>lolcat <span class="gp">$</span><span class="w"> </span>brew <span class="nb">install </span>cowsay </code></pre></div> <h3> Get A Fortune File </h3> <p>You can get mine. <br> <a href="https://github.com/Chad-Ballay/fortune_study_guide/blob/master/study_guides/SY0_501.fortune">https://github.com/Chad-Ballay/fortune_study_guide/blob/master/study_guides/SY0_501.fortune</a></p> <p>Or write your own.<br><br> <a href="http://bradthemad.org/tech/notes/fortune_makefile.php">http://bradthemad.org/tech/notes/fortune_makefile.php</a></p> <h3> Setup Your Fortune File </h3> <p>I install them locally to ~/.fortune since the intention is to have specific cert ones for focus. You could install this wherever you want, you just need to remember that for the .bash_profile step.<br> </p> <div class="highlight"><pre class="highlight console"><code><span class="gp">$</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nb">mkdir</span> ~/.fortune <span class="gp">$</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nb">cp</span> ./study_guides/SY0_501.fortune ~/.fortune/ <span class="gp">$</span><span class="w"> </span>strfile ~/.fortune/SY0_501.fortune </code></pre></div> <h3> Test It </h3> <p>You should be able to get some random flashcard and ascii art when you run this.<br> </p> <div class="highlight"><pre class="highlight console"><code><span class="gp">$</span><span class="w"> </span>fortune ~/.fortune/SY0_501.fortune | cowsay <span class="nt">-f</span> <span class="si">$(</span><span class="nb">shuf</span> <span class="nt">-n</span> 1 <span class="nt">-e</span> <span class="si">$(</span>cowsay <span class="nt">-l</span> | <span class="nb">tail</span> <span class="nt">-n</span> +2<span class="si">))</span> | lolcat </code></pre></div> <h3> Setup Profile </h3> <p>Now to modify your login to always have one.<br> </p> <div class="highlight"><pre class="highlight console"><code><span class="gp">$</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nb">cp</span> ~/.bash_profile ~/.bash_profile.backup.<span class="nv">$$</span> <span class="gp">$</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nb">echo</span> <span class="s1">'fortune ~/.fortune/SY0_501.fortune | cowsay -f $(shuf -n 1 -e $(cowsay -l | tail -n +2)) | lolcat'</span> <span class="o">&gt;&gt;</span> ~/.bash_profile </code></pre></div> <h3> TODO </h3> <p>PR's are always welcome.</p> <ul> <li> I need to review the data in my Fortune file since there are misspellings galore. </li> <li> I need to expand it to include more concepts.</li> <li> I need to create other Fortune files for GSEC, CySA, CCNA, etc...</li> </ul> comptia security study cybersecurity