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48 lines
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layout: page
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category-page: intermediate
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category-title: Intermediate commands
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tags: cow print say dragon lolcat
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author: Joao Tomazoni
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title: cowsay
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previous-page: pages/cmd/interm/chsh.html
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next-page: pages/cmd/interm/curl.html
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---
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<code>cowsay</code> is a entertainment command, however it's not guaranteed that your terminal is
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going to have this command available as default. It most likely won't, however you can download
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it yourself using a package manager like <a href="https://brew.sh">brew.sh</a>.<br>
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<pre>
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cowsay "Hello there"
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</pre>
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Very useful wouldn't you agree?
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You can also pipe commands like ls with cowsay, for example:
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<pre>
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ls | cowsay
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</pre>
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It returns the cow saying the list of files in the current directory.<br><br>
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<h3>Flags</h3>
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<b>-f</b> if you aren't satisfied with the cow, you have other possibilities of
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animals instead of cow. One example is the dragon which you can get by using "-f dragon",
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it will now draw a fantasy-like dragon.
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<pre>
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cowsay -f dragon "Burn World"
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</pre>
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There are more animal drawings for the cowsay command, just type cowsay -l in your terminal for
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the list of the animals you can use.<br><br>
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<h3>Suggestion: combine with <code>lolcat</code></h3>
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<code>lolcat</code> is another entertainment command that is also installed with the brew pack you
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installed previously for the <code>cowsay</code> command, and they work perfectly together.
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Adding lolcat at the end of the cowsay command and its quote will add random colours for the
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drawing.
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