Commands tagged cowsay (8)

  • Have a random "cow" say a random thing

    You need to have fortune and cowsay installed. It uses a subshell to list cow files in you cow directory (this folder is default for debian based systems, others might use another folder). you can add it to your .bashrc file to have it great you with something interesting every time you start a new session. Show Sample Output


    10
    fortune | cowsay -f $(ls /usr/share/cowsay/cows/ | shuf -n1)
    zed · 2010-07-08 02:57:52 8
  • let the cow suggest some commit messages for you


    5
    curl -s http://whatthecommit.com/index.txt | cowsay
    adaven · 2011-03-20 17:30:25 4
  • old man's advice


    2
    fortune | toilet -w $(($(tput cols)-5)) -f pagga | cowsay -n -f beavis.zen
    kev · 2012-04-29 06:12:04 16
  • Random cow tells your fortune

    Can be installed in the root crontab if you want it to update your motd. If not on ubuntu you need to change /usr/share/cowsay/cows/* to the location of your cow files. Show Sample Output


    0
    files=(/usr/share/cowsay/cows/*);cowsay -f `printf "%s\n" "${files[RANDOM % ${#files}]}"` "`fortune`"
    dog · 2010-06-02 14:18:28 5
  • xcowsay think on other cow

    recursive cowsay Show Sample Output


    0
    xcowsay "$(cowsay smile)"
    brownman · 2014-06-24 05:17:04 7
  • Make all the cows tell a fortune

    Shows a list of all installed cows saying a fortune. Also lists the cows names. Pic your favorite cow! Needs cowsay, fortune and ruby installed. The path only applies to OS X with cowsay installed using homebrew. On Linux it might be /usr/share/cowsay/cows/ or similar. Uses ruby just because. Show Sample Output


    -1
    echo 'Dir.foreach("/usr/local/Cellar/cowsay/3.03/share/cows") {|cow| puts cow; system "fortune | cowsay -f /usr/local/Cellar/cowsay/3.03/share/cows/#{cow}" }' | ruby
    orkoden · 2013-04-15 12:27:38 10
  • Show all cowsay's available cowfiles


    -2
    cowsay -l | sed '1d;s/ /\n/g' | while read f; do cowsay -f $f $f;done
    fizz · 2010-09-06 03:40:42 4
  • Have a random

    To install on centos 6.2 for Centos auto accept: yum install fortune* -y yum install cowsay* -y Removed the -f command as I dont know how, but it works without it. Almost the same but one folder higher =).


    -2
    fortune | cowsay $(ls/usr/share/cowsay | shuf -n1)
    cablegunmaster · 2014-10-23 10:09:44 9

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