cowsay -- Linux command line meme generator circa 2001

@[email protected] · 2 years ago

cowsay -- Linux command line meme generator circa 2001

Ubuntu Peronista · 2 years ago

I made some .cow files anyone may like.

gaucho_hacker.cow:

$the_cow = &lt;&lt;"EOC";
   $thoughts
    $thoughts    _________
         |        |                   ________
     ____|________|____       ~      |        \\
        //// _____)              ~   ||        \\_____
        _|   (o)(o)           ~    ~ ||              \\
       (o        \\|              ~   ||               \\
         |     (..)           ~    ~ ||                \\
         |    /||||\\             ~   ||                 |
         | \\     \\\\           ~    ~ |                  |
        /|  -----_\\\\__           ~   |___________----|--+
       /  \\__/_ )    ( ______ ~____      ======      wwwww8 
      / +___   (/|    )______||_--\\\\--+  -                8
     /      +--- +- \\/        /________|wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww8
    |________---____/
EOC

peron.cow

$the_cow = &lt;&lt;"EOC";
        $thoughts
         $thoughts  ,_____._____
     ,_.    /-_---------_\\
    /  |   ||           ||        /\\
   /  &lt;    \\|.__.   .__.|/       | l
  |    /    |E==&lt;   E==&lt;|      n J |
  |  /     G|    | |    |D     \\   |
  | |      \\|  , q_p ,  |J     _|__/_
 ====       | /._____.\\ |      |\\__/|
 |   |      (   \\___J   )      |    |
 |   |      (  =.___- = )     /    /
 |   |       (.__-___,)      /    /
  \\   |____----+   |________/    /
   \\        \\   \\/   _/        /
    \\_____   \\  /   /   ______/
EOC

17oct.cow

$the_cow = &lt;&lt;"EOC";
 $thoughts
  $thoughts           _______
  \\o/        \\ peron \\     ---------
------+       \\-------    | C  G  T |
:::::::::::::::\\::::::::::|---------|:::::::::::
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%\\%%%%%%%%%|%%%%%%%%%|%%%%%%%%%%%
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Ghostalmedia · 2 years ago

Solid meme with great provenance.

Worth a $20 Circuit City E-Machines rebate card at auction.

janus2 · 2 years ago

@[email protected] · 2 years ago

Ansible uses this to post messages by default, which has caused some unrest in the community.

https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/10530

Bappity · 2 years ago

I wonder if there’s a fork entirely for people that don’t want cowsay default lmao

@[email protected] · 2 years ago

Reading the back and forth it sounds like it only uses it if it’s installed. But you can also turn it off in the ansible.cfg. Still seems like kind of a silly default behavior, as cowsay is a novelty.

I met with the architect of Ansible last year. I should have asked him for the backstory on that.

astraeus · 2 years ago

I’m guessing there’s an engineer or higher-up who is very much attached to the cowsay readout and they refuse to allow it to be Easter egg’d

@[email protected] · 2 years ago

fortune | cowsay -f bong is my preferred style

@[email protected] · 2 years ago

Heh, I just remove fortune | cowsay from my login script a few weeks ago. Now I want to add it back.