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< Hello, bovine world! > |
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<cowsay>Hello, DrOwl</cowsay> |
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==cowsay== |
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A [[Debian]] Package: |
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Package: cowsay 3.03-5 |
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a configurable talking [[cow]] |
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Turns text into happy [[ASCII]] cows, with speech balloons. |
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http://packages.debian.org/unstable/games/cowsay.html |
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http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue67/orr.html |
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NAME |
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cowsay/cowthink - configurable speaking/thinking cow (and |
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a bit more) |
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SYNOPSIS |
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cowsay [-e eye_string] [-f cowfile] [-h] [-l] [-n] [-T |
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tongue_string] [-W column] [-bdgpstwy] |
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DESCRIPTION |
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Cowsay generates an ASCII picture of a cow saying some- |
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thing provided by the user. If run with no arguments, it |
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accepts standard input, word-wraps the message given at |
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about 40 columns, and prints the cow saying the given mes- |
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sage on standard output. |
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To aid in the use of arbitrary messages with arbitrary |
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whitespace, use the -n option. If it is specified, the |
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given message will not be word-wrapped. This is possibly |
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useful if you want to make the cow think or speak in |
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figlet(6). If -n is specified, there must not be any com- |
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mand-line arguments left after all the switches have been |
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processed. |
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The -W specifies roughly (where the message should be |
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wrapped. The default is equivalent to -W 40 i.e. wrap |
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words at or before the 40th column. |
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If any command-line arguments are left over after all |
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switches have been processed, they become the cow's mes- |
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sage. The program will not accept standard input for a |
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message in this case. |
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There are several provided modes which change the appear- |
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ance of the cow depending on its particular emo- |
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tional/physical state. The -b option initiates Borg mode; |
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-d causes the cow to appear dead; -g invokes greedy mode; |
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-p causes a state of paranoia to come over the cow; -s |
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makes the cow appear thoroughly stoned; -t yields a tired |
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cow; -w is somewhat the opposite of -t, and initiates |
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wired mode; -y brings on the cow's youthful appearance. |
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The user may specify the -e option to select the appear- |
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ance of the cow's eyes, in which case the first two char- |
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acters of the argument string eye_string will be used. |
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The default eyes are 'oo'. The tongue is similarly con- |
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figurable through -T and tongue_string; it must be two |
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characters and does not appear by default. However, it |
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does appear in the 'dead' and 'stoned' modes. Any config- |
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uration done by -e and -T will be lost if one of the pro- |
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vided modes is used. |
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The -f option specifies a particular cow picture file |
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(``cowfile'') to use. If the cowfile spec contains '/' |
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then it will be interpreted as a path relative to the cur- |
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rent directory. Otherwise, cowsay will search the path |
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specified in the COWPATH environment variable. To list |
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all cowfiles on the current COWPATH, invoke cowsay with |
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the -l switch. |
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If the program is invoked as cowthink then the cow will |
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think its message instead of saying it. |
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COWFILE FORMAT |
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A cowfile is made up of a simple block of perl(1) code, |
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which assigns a picture of a cow to the variable $the_cow. |
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Should you wish to customize the eyes or the tongue of the |
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cow, then the variables $eyes and $tongue may be used. |
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The trail leading up to the cow's message balloon is com- |
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posed of the character(s) in the $thoughts variable. Any |
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backslashes must be reduplicated to prevent interpolation. |
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The name of a cowfile should end with .cow, otherwise it |
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is assumed not to be a cowfile. Also, at-signs (``@'') |
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must be backslashed because that is what Perl 5 expects. |
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COMPATIBILITY WITH OLDER VERSIONS |
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What older versions? :-) |
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Version 3.x is fully backward-compatible with 2.x ver- |
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sions. If you're still using a 1.x version, consider |
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upgrading. And tell me where you got the older versions, |
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since I didn't exactly put them up for world-wide access. |
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Oh, just so you know, this manual page documents version |
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3.02 of cowsay. |
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ENVIRONMENT |
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The COWPATH environment variable, if present, will be used |
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to search for cowfiles. It contains a colon-separated |
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list of directories, much like PATH or MANPATH. It should |
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always contain the /usr/share/cowsay/cows directory, or at |
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least a directory with a file called default.cow in it. |
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FILES |
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/usr/share/cowsay/cows holds a sample set of cowfiles. If |
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your COWPATH is not explicitly set, it automatically con- |
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tains this directory. |
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BUGS |
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If there are any, please notify the author at the address |
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below. |
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AUTHOR |
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Tony Monroe (tony@nog.net), with suggestions from Shannon |
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Appel (appel@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU) and contributions from |
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Anthony Polito (aspolito@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU). |
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SEE ALSO |
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[[perl]](1), wall(1), nwrite(1), [[figlet]](6) |
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$Date: 1999/11/04 19:50:40 $ cowsay(1) |
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http://www.coost.com/cgi-bin/dwww?type=man&location=/usr/share/man/man1/cowsay.1.gz |
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==man== |
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<man>cowsay</man> |
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see also: [[Figlet]] |
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[[Category:Linux]] |
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[[Category:Fun]] |
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[[Category:Art]] |
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[[Category:ASCII]] |
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