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cowsay

Generate an ASCII character like a cow or sheep saying or thinking something. Available characters are stored in the /usr/share/cowsay on Linux. And /usr/local/share/cows/ on Mac. directory.

Print an ASCII cow saying "Hello world!":

cowsay "Hello world!"

Print an ASCII dragon saying "Hello!":

echo "Hello!" | cowsay -f dragon

Print a stoned thinking ASCII cow:

cowthink -s "I'm just a cow, not a great thinker ..."

Print out a list of all characters with cowsay:

ls -1 {{cowsay_character_directory}} | rev | cut -c 5- | rev | xargs -I _ cowsay -f _ cowsay -f _