# Run verse(1) if it's installed and we haven't seen it already today (the # verses are selected by date); run in a subshell to keep vars out of global # namespace if command -v verse >/dev/null 2>&1 ; then ( date=$(date +%Y-%m-%d) versefile=${VERSEFILE:-$HOME/.verse} if [ -e "$HOME"/.verse ] ; then read -r lastversedate < "$versefile" fi if [ "$date" \> "$lastversedate" ] ; then printf '\n%s\n\n' "$(verse)" printf '%s\n' "$date" > "$versefile" fi ) ; fi