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category-title: Intermediate commands
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author: Joao Tomazoni
title: cowsay
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cowsay
is a entertainment command, however it's not guaranteed that your terminal is
going to have this command available as default. It most likely won't, however you can download
it yourself using a package manager like brew.sh.
cowsay "Hello there"Very useful wouldn't you agree? You can also pipe commands like ls with cowsay, for example:
ls | cowsayIt returns the cow saying the list of files in the current directory.
cowsay -f dragon "Burn World"There are more animal drawings for the cowsay command, just type cowsay -l in your terminal for the list of the animals you can use.
lolcat
lolcat
is another entertainment command that is also installed with the brew pack you
installed previously for the cowsay
command, and they work perfectly together.
Adding lolcat at the end of the cowsay command and its quote will add random colours for the
drawing.