Introduction

This chapter is exactly what it sounds like. The commands contained herein are important enough that I didn't want to leave them out, but they didn't really fit in any of the other chapters.

The commands covered in this chapter are

cal Use it to display calendar information.
date Use it to display or set time and date.
fortune Use it when random display of quotations is needed.
ispell Use it to display the spell checker.
rpm Use it to dispaly the Red Hat Package manager.
strfile Use it to maintain fortune database.

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