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I start every sesh with: fortune | cowsay | lolcat

sss111 3y ago
for people on a mac, run brew install fortune lolcat cowsay
eigenket 3y ago
Same, although mine has cowsay -f stegosaurus And I've been meaning to get rid of the lolcat because it's the only thing on my laptop with a Ruby dependency and I'd like to reclaim the disk space that requires.
- macNchz 3y ago
  Wow I've had my terminals open with fortune | cowsay for years but somehow had no idea that there were different cows. Should anyone also happen to be interested in taking a quick glance at everything installed by default: cowsay -l | tail -n +2 | sed 's/ /\n/g' | xargs -i% bash -c 'echo %; fortune -s | cowsay -f %; printf "\n\n\n"' edit: I like the novelty, I'm going to try out having a random "cow" saying my fortune greeting: fortune -s | cowsay -f $(cowsay -l | tail -n +2 | sed 's/ /\n/g' | shuf | head -n 1)
  - seti0Cha 3y ago
    It's super easy to create your own cows. Just look at any of the files in /usr/share/cowsay. You basically just have to get an ascii picture and add a couple of tags. Mine's a hypnotoad.
    - eigenket 3y ago
      Once I left my laptop unlocked at university and a fellow student and friend of mine added something to my .bashrc using a custom cowsay file being piped some text he got from a bash error handling mechanism I don't recall. He already had the cow art file on his computer for some reason so I think the deed took him only a minute or so. The overall effect was that if you entered a command not recognised by the shell (like typoing dc instead of cd for example) an ascii-art version of a certain microsoft paperclip would respond "I'm sorry I don't know how to dc, would you like help with that?"
  - pelagicAustral 3y ago
    Oh man, I just tried and my first shot was: ________________________________________ < Your ignorance cramps my conversation. > ---------------------------------------- \ ____________ \ |__________| / /\ / / \ /___________/___/| | | | | ==\ /== | | | O O | \ \ | | < | \ \| /| | \ \ / | \_____/ | / / / /| | / /| /||\| | /||\/ -------------| | | | | <__/ \__>
8organicbits 3y ago
Found a demo of what that produces: https://github.com/busyloop/lolcat#screenshot https://github.com/busyloop/lolcat#screenshot
tbomb 3y ago
similar, only I use dadjoke and the thinking cow to keep things a lighthearted :) dadjoke | cowthink -s

for people on a mac, run brew install fortune lolcat cowsay

Same, although mine has cowsay -f stegosaurus And I've been meaning to get rid of the lolcat because it's the only thing on my laptop with a Ruby dependency and I'd like to reclaim the disk space that requires.

macNchz 3y ago
Wow I've had my terminals open with fortune | cowsay for years but somehow had no idea that there were different cows. Should anyone also happen to be interested in taking a quick glance at everything installed by default: cowsay -l | tail -n +2 | sed 's/ /\n/g' | xargs -i% bash -c 'echo %; fortune -s | cowsay -f %; printf "\n\n\n"' edit: I like the novelty, I'm going to try out having a random "cow" saying my fortune greeting: fortune -s | cowsay -f $(cowsay -l | tail -n +2 | sed 's/ /\n/g' | shuf | head -n 1)
- seti0Cha 3y ago
  It's super easy to create your own cows. Just look at any of the files in /usr/share/cowsay. You basically just have to get an ascii picture and add a couple of tags. Mine's a hypnotoad.
  - eigenket 3y ago
    Once I left my laptop unlocked at university and a fellow student and friend of mine added something to my .bashrc using a custom cowsay file being piped some text he got from a bash error handling mechanism I don't recall. He already had the cow art file on his computer for some reason so I think the deed took him only a minute or so. The overall effect was that if you entered a command not recognised by the shell (like typoing dc instead of cd for example) an ascii-art version of a certain microsoft paperclip would respond "I'm sorry I don't know how to dc, would you like help with that?"
- pelagicAustral 3y ago
  Oh man, I just tried and my first shot was: ________________________________________ < Your ignorance cramps my conversation. > ---------------------------------------- \ ____________ \ |__________| / /\ / / \ /___________/___/| | | | | ==\ /== | | | O O | \ \ | | < | \ \| /| | \ \ / | \_____/ | / / / /| | / /| /||\| | /||\/ -------------| | | | | <__/ \__>

8organicbits 3y ago

Found a demo of what that produces: https://github.com/busyloop/lolcat#screenshot https://github.com/busyloop/lolcat#screenshot

tbomb 3y ago

similar, only I use dadjoke and the thinking cow to keep things a lighthearted :) dadjoke | cowthink -s