astrachano / ola

CLI tool to generate quotes said by ola.

ola

CLI tool to generate quotes said by Professor Astrachan.

Installation

Requirements:

• Must have Python 2 installed
• /usr/local/bin must be on the path
• /usr/bin must be on the path
• Python 2's executable must be at /usr/bin/python

Installing on MacOS or Linux:

To install, run the following commands:

git clone https://github.com/vasilescur/ola.git
cd ola
chmod +x ./install.sh
sudo ./install.sh

You may then delete the ola folder into which you cloned the repo.

Installing on Windows

Clone or download the repository.

Rename the ola file to ola.py.

Usage

MacOS or Linux:

To use, simply run:

ola

If you want to use a different quotes source file, pass the path as an argument:

ola my_other_quotes.txt

Quote files are formatted as one quote per line.

You can also pipe output to other programs. For example:

ola | cowsay

The quotes file may be configured. It is stored at /etc/ola/quotes.txt.

Windows

At the command line, run python ola.py from the repo's folder.

Note: Not tested, but this might break the ability to pass custom files as arguments (or might break the whole thing). If this is the case, maybe try find a fix by editing the sys.argsv section of the code.

But why Python 2?

My Python 3 installation is a bit funky, so I decided to use Python 2 for more easy cross-platform support.

If you'd prefer to use Python 3, here's how:

• In the main program (ola file), change print message to print(message)
• Change the shebang line at the top of the file to point to your Python 3 executable

Contributing

Pull requests are welcome. Please submit an issue if any bugs are encountered.

Credit

Created by Radu Vasilescu.

Many of the quotes are sourced from here: ola Quotes from CS 101

Others are added by me.

License

MIT license. See LICENSE file.