cowsay v1

cowsay is a command line program written in Perl. The original version had a final release in 2016 (that’s the version of many installed cowsay programs) and there’s a number of forks of that release in Perl. There are also many many versions of cowsay in other programming languages, like the one I maintain written in R, unimaginatively called cowsay. I wrote about cowsay here back in 2014. I didn’t think this would ever be 300+ stars popular, but here we are. Given that people seem to actually use it - or at least star it - seems worth putting some more time into it. ...

December 9, 2024 · 4 min · Scott Chamberlain

cowsay - ascii messages and warnings for R

The history Cowsay is a terminal program that generates ascii pictures of a cow saying what you tell the cow to say in a bubble. See the Wikipedia page for more information: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowsay - Install cowsay to use in your terminal (on OSX): brew update brew install cowsay Type cowsay hello world!, and you get: ______________ < hello world! > -------------- \ ^__^ \ (oo)\_______ (__)\ )\/\ ||----w | || || Optionally, you can install fortune to get pseudorandom messages from a database of quotations. On OSX do brew install fortune, then you can pipe a fortune quote to cowsay: ...

February 20, 2014 · 4 min · Scott Chamberlain