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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 interest

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 | \ \ | | < | \ \| /| | \ \ / | \_____/ | / / / /| | / /| /||\| | /||\/ -------------| | | | | <__/ \__>

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 | \ \ | | < | \ \| /| | \ \ / | \_____/ | / / / /| | / /| /||\| | /||\/ -------------| | | | | <__/ \__>