Cowsay: completely useless but great fun

[Feathers McGraw]

feathers-mcgraw@Hobbs-T440s:/etc/apt/preferences.d$ cowsay moo
 _____
< moo >
 -----
        \   ^__^
         \  (oo)\_______
            (__)\       )\/\
                ||----w |
                ||     ||

Other "cows" are available too:

feathers-mcgraw@Hobbs-T440s:/etc/apt/preferences.d$ cowsay -f gnu.cow "Join us now and share the software, You'll be free, hackers, you'll be free. Join us now and share the software, You'll be free, hackers, you'll be free. Hoarders can get piles of money, That is true, hackers, that is true. But they cannot help their neighbors, That's not good, hackers, that's not good. When we have enough free software At our call, hackers, at our call, We'll kick out those dirty licenses Ever more, hackers, ever more. Join us now and share the software, You'll be free, hackers, you'll be free. Join us now and share the software, You'll be free, hackers, you'll be free."
 _________________________________________
/ Join us now and share the software,     \
| You'll be free, hackers, you'll be      |
| free. Join us now and share the         |
| software, You'll be free, hackers,      |
| you'll be free. Hoarders can get piles  |
| of money, That is true, hackers, that   |
| is true. But they cannot help their     |
| neighbors, That's not good, hackers,    |
| that's not good. When we have enough    |
| free software At our call, hackers, at  |
| our call, We'll kick out those dirty    |
| licenses Ever more, hackers, ever more. |
| Join us now and share the software,     |
| You'll be free, hackers, you'll be      |
| free. Join us now and share the         |
| software, You'll be free, hackers,      |
\ you'll be free.                         /
 -----------------------------------------
    \               ,-----._
  .  \         .  ,'        `-.__,------._
 //   \      __\\'                        `-.
((    _____-'___))                           |
 `:='/     (alf_/                            |
 `.=|      |='                               |
    |)   O |                                  \
    |      |                               /\  \
    |     /                          .    /  \  \
    |    .-..__            ___   .--' \  |\   \  |
   |o o  |     ``--.___.  /   `-'      \  \\   \ |
    `--''        '  .' / /             |  | |   | \
                 |  | / /              |  | |   mmm
                 |  ||  |              | /| |
                 ( .' \ \              || | |
                 | |   \ \            // / /
                 | |    \ \          || |_|
                /  |    |_/         /_|
               /__/

Someone even ported it to Android, which is where I first discovered it:

https://f-droid.org/repository/brows...h.fixme.cowsay

Hours of fun!

[Snowhog]

If you don't already know, you can change the cow to other figures. See http://en.kioskea.net/faq/12217-disp...f-the-terminal

[Feathers McGraw]

Could be useful for banner messages for SSH logins etc.

[GreyGeek]

feathers-mcgraw@Hobbs-T440s:/etc/apt/preferences.d$ cowsay moo
 _____
< moo >
 -----
        \   ^__^
         \  (oo)\_______
            (__)\       )\/\
                ||----w |
                ||     ||

Other "cows" are available too:

feathers-mcgraw@Hobbs-T440s:/etc/apt/preferences.d$ cowsay -f gnu.cow "Join us now and share the software, You'll be free, hackers, you'll be free. Join us now and share the software, You'll be free, hackers, you'll be free. Hoarders can get piles of money, That is true, hackers, that is true. But they cannot help their neighbors, That's not good, hackers, that's not good. When we have enough free software At our call, hackers, at our call, We'll kick out those dirty licenses Ever more, hackers, ever more. Join us now and share the software, You'll be free, hackers, you'll be free. Join us now and share the software, You'll be free, hackers, you'll be free."
 _________________________________________
/ Join us now and share the software,     \
| You'll be free, hackers, you'll be      |
| free. Join us now and share the         |
| software, You'll be free, hackers,      |
| you'll be free. Hoarders can get piles  |
| of money, That is true, hackers, that   |
| is true. But they cannot help their     |
| neighbors, That's not good, hackers,    |
| that's not good. When we have enough    |
| free software At our call, hackers, at  |
| our call, We'll kick out those dirty    |
| licenses Ever more, hackers, ever more. |
| Join us now and share the software,     |
| You'll be free, hackers, you'll be      |
| free. Join us now and share the         |
| software, You'll be free, hackers,      |
\ you'll be free.                         /
 -----------------------------------------
    \               ,-----._
  .  \         .  ,'        `-.__,------._
 //   \      __\\'                        `-.
((    _____-'___))                           |
 `:='/     (alf_/                            |
 `.=|      |='                               |
    |)   O |                                  \
    |      |                               /\  \
    |     /                          .    /  \  \
    |    .-..__            ___   .--' \  |\   \  |
   |o o  |     ``--.___.  /   `-'      \  \\   \ |
    `--''        '  .' / /             |  | |   | \
                 |  | / /              |  | |   mmm
                 |  ||  |              | /| |
                 ( .' \ \              || | |
                 | |   \ \            // / /
                 | |    \ \          || |_|
                /  |    |_/         /_|
               /__/

Someone even ported it to Android, which is where I first discovered it:

https://f-droid.org/repository/brows...h.fixme.cowsay

Hours of fun!

It looks like a lotta bull to me!

[Feathers McGraw]

You must be GNU to this...

[vinnywright]

you can set the cowsay to go off automatically when you open a terminal ,,,, just install the fortunes, fortune-mod, fortune-off(which is offensive fortunes if you want) packages and add this to the end of your ~/.bashrc

#test fortune
fortune -o | cowsay -f tux

the -o is telling fortune to use the offensive ones and -f tux is telling cowsay to use ,,,,tux ,,,see man cowsay for more.

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/ We came, we saw, we kicked its ass! \
|                                     |
\ -- Bill Murray, "Ghostbusters"      /
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   \
    \
        .--.
       |o_o |
       |:_/ |
      //   \ \
     (|     | )
    /'\_   _/`\
    \___)=(___/

vinny@vinnys-HP-G62:~$

VINNY

[Feathers McGraw]

Ha! Brilliant

[vinnywright]

if you want to have even more fun install "lolcat" and pipe the cowsay to it like

cowsay SeeYa | lolcat

it will be all rainbow colored

VINNY

Hold on a few min ,,,I'll give up a screenshot

[Feathers McGraw]

I wish there was a Nyan cat option, that would be amazing!

[vinnywright]

hear we go


VINNY

[jpenguin]

don't forget about https://github.com/erkin/ponysay

[Feathers McGraw]

I hadn't seen that before, thanks!

[woodsmoke]

well being that I have been warned that my posts are offensive to the group i will still hazard that i have had students make pizza sections look like handgunpoppers that exploded in to popcorn....however the x's were replaced wirh oompahs.

two parts coconut milk
two parts sweet cream or just sugar water
two parts gin
or one part gin and one part vodka

either way...

one part soft sand under your feet...

no sexism here

two or three parts dancing under a carbibbean moon...

you can advertise in a local newspaper or not

enjoy!

woodlikesthesoftsanbetweenmytoessmoke

[perspectoff]

cf. http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/YetiCoffee

[jpenguin]

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                ||----w |
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