Motivate

A simple script to print random motivational quotes. Highly influenced by linux command fortune.

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Motivate-new

As previous repo is not maintained now, but there are a lot of people who want to contribute, I've decided to fork and continue the project. This would be active and would be maintained by me. PRs are welcome 🎉.

• Feel free to open an issue for bugs or feature request.
• Add more quotes referencing this issue.
• Use the new gitter community to chat and communicate.

Thanks ❤️

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Features

• Colored Output
• Supports bash and zsh

Requirements

git
python 3x

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Installation

Linux/MacOS

$ git clone https://github.com/avats-dev/motivate.git
$ cd motivate/motivate
$ sudo ./install.sh
$ source ~/.bashrc

zsh users should replace .bashrc with .zshrc.

If you have no root priviledge, install in this way:

$ git clone https://github.com/avats-dev/motivate.git
$ cd motivate
$ ln -s $PWD/motivate/motivate.py moti
$ ln -s $PWD/dummy.sh mmoti

$ export PATH=$PWD:$PATH
$ # echo 'export PATH=$PWD:$PATH' >> ~/.bashrc

Later you can run by calling moti (a single run) or mmoti (keep running until you break it). After doing so, I found that python 2.x is enough to run this script.

Windows

• Make sure you have Python3 on your path.
• Clone the repository git clone https://github.com/avats-dev/motivate.git.
• Add the path to your local clone to your system path.
• Run py -3 motivate.py from the command prompt.

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Update Database

$ git clone https://github.com/avats-dev/motivate.git
$ cd motivate
$ ./UPDATE

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Usage

$ motivate

"When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor."
		--Elon Musk

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Contribution

The most popular way to contribute is adding new quotes. You do it by adding next JSON file in motivate/data/ directory. The rule is maximum 20 quotes and minimum 5 per file and a contributor can commit only one file.

IMPORTANT --> Name your file as your-github-username.json to avoid conflicts in case of consequent PRs. Thanks.

Before you submit your new JSON file, it is helpful to validate your file at this website to make sure it is formatted correctly.

Bug reports and new feature ideas are welcome, open a new issue.

You're also welcome to discuss the idea on Gitter Chat.