Cowsay : Dialogues by cow in terminal
May 19, 2009 by mohamed hanoosh
Cowsay is a utility for printing text as dialogues (as a balloon) by cow.
A variety of 'cows' like skeleton, tux, devil, dragon, turtle, etc are available. For more available cows check the directory /usr/share/cowsay/cows.
For more fun , redirect fortune output to cowsay and put in .bashrc .
hash@ssl50:~$ cowsay "Carry on"
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< Carry on>
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\ ^__^
\ (oo)\_______
(__)\ )\/\
||----w |
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hash@ssl50:~$ cowsay -f tux "Carry on"
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< carry on >
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\
\
.--.
|o_o |
|:_/ |
// \ \
(| | )
/'\_ _/`\
\___)=(___/
For more fun , redirect fortune output to cowsay and put in .bashrc .
hash@ssl50:~$ fortune | cowsay
___________________________
/ Exhilaration is that feeling you get \
| just after a great idea hits you, and |
| just before you realize what is wrong |
\ with it. /
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\ ^__^
\ (oo)\_______
(__)\ )\/\
||----w |
|| ||