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Je cherchez une manière de faire un affichage de citations aléatoirement dans une liste, voila ce que j’obtiens et cela marche.

num_quotes=9

# Génère un random
rand=$[ ( $RANDOM % $num_quotes ) + 1 ]
case $rand in
  1) quote="Some things Man was never meant to know.\n
            For everything else, there's Google.";;
  2) quote="Real programmers don't comment their code.\n
            It was hard to code, it should be hard to understand.";;
  3) quote="There are 10 kinds of people in the world,\n
            and those that don't.";;
  4) quote="My software never has bugs. It just develops random features.";;
  5) quote="The only problem with troubleshooting\n
            is that sometimes trouble shoots back.";;
  6) quote="If you give someone a program, you'll frustrate them for a day;\n
            if you teach them how to program you'll frustrate them for life.";;
  7) quote="You know you're a geek when …\n
            You try to shoo a fly away from the monitor with your cursor.";;
  8) quote="We all know Linux is great … it does infinite loops in 5 seconds.\n
            [Linus Torvalds]";;
  9) quote="By golly, I'm beginning to think Linux really *is* the best
            thing since sliced bread.\n [Vance Petree]";;
esac

# Affichage
echo "$quote"