hpr1779 :: Cowsay and Figlet
Cowsay and Figlet: Two fun ASCII text commands
Hosted by Jon Kulp on Thursday, 2015-05-28 is flagged as Explicit and is released under a CC-BY-SA license.
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Basic commands
Make default cow speak:
cowsay "Hacker Public Radio"
Result:
_____________________
< Hacker Public Radio >
---------------------
\ ^__^
\ (oo)\_______
(__)\ )\/\
||----w |
|| ||
Modes
- -b Borg mode;
- -d dead;
- -g greedy mode;
- -p causes a state of paranoia to come over the cow;
- -s makes the cow appear thoroughly stoned;
- -t yields a tired cow;
- -w is somewhat the opposite of -t, and initiates wired mode;
- -y brings on the cow's youthful appearance.
Use "tired" cow mode:
cowsay -t "Ken is tired of begging for shows"
Result:
___________________________________
< Ken is tired of begging for shows >
-----------------------------------
\ ^__^
\ (--)\_______
(__)\ )\/\
||----w |
|| ||
Specify different images with -f
Threaten someone with a dragon:
cowsay -f dragon 'record and upload a show OR ELSE!'
Result:
___________________________________
< record and upload a show OR ELSE! >
-----------------------------------
\ / \ //\
\ |\___/| / \// \\
/0 0 \__ / // | \ \
/ / \/_/ // | \ \
@_^_@'/ \/_ // | \ \
//_^_/ \/_ // | \ \
( //) | \/// | \ \
( / /) _|_ / ) // | \ _\
( // /) '/,_ _ _/ ( ; -. | _ _\.-~ .-~~~^-.
(( / / )) ,-{ _ `-.|.-~-. .~ `.
(( // / )) '/\ / ~-. _ .-~ .-~^-. \
(( /// )) `. { } / \ \
(( / )) .----~-.\ \-' .~ \ `. \^-.
///.----..> \ _ -~ `. ^-` ^-_
///-._ _ _ _ _ _ _}^ - - - - ~ ~-- ,.-~
/.-~
On Linux, praise Ahuka with a Random Cow:
echo 'Ahuka Rocks!' | cowsay -f $(locate *.cow | shuf -n1)
One Result:
______________
< Ahuka Rocks! >
--------------
\ ,-^-.
\ !oYo!
\ /./=\.\______
## )\/\
||-----w||
|| ||
Cowth Vader
Figlet
Make ASCII banner text with figlet. This one uses the default font and wraps the lines at 45 characters:
figlet -w 45 "Hacker Public Radio"
Result:
_ _ _
| | | | __ _ ___| | _____ _ __
| |_| |/ _` |/ __| |/ / _ \ '__|
| _ | (_| | (__| < __/ |
|_| |_|\__,_|\___|_|\_\___|_|
____ _ _ _
| _ \ _ _| |__ | (_) ___
| |_) | | | | '_ \| | |/ __|
| __/| |_| | |_) | | | (__
|_| \__,_|_.__/|_|_|\___|
____ _ _
| _ \ __ _ __| (_) ___
| |_) / _` |/ _` | |/ _ \
| _ < (_| | (_| | | (_) |
|_| \_\__,_|\__,_|_|\___/
Use an alternate font with -f option:
figlet -f digital "Community News"
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ +-+-+-+-+ |C|o|m|m|u|n|i|t|y| |N|e|w|s| +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ +-+-+-+-+
Links
- My random
cowsay"is it Friday yet" page: https://jonkulp.net/iify.html - Cowsay for Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ch.fixme.cowsay&hl=en
- cowsay(1) - Linux man pagehttps://linux.die.net/man/1/cowsay
- figlet(6) - Linux man page: https://linux.die.net/man/6/figlet