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