#!/bin/bash
# Quoter, the randomly generated quotes maker
# It reads messages off a file called "messages.txt"
# If it doesn't exists on the same dir as the script, it'll fail.

# Setting vars

file=$HOME/messages.txt
count=$(wc -l $file | awk '{print $1}')
number=$((1 + $RANDOM % $count))

quote=$(sed -n $number\p $file)

echo "Random quote: $quote"