What is cowsay/cowthink?
What is cowsay/cowthink?
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 something provided by the user.
How do I use the cowsay command?
Using the cowsay command is quite simple. The easiest way to go about it is to pass in a string you’d like to have echoed back to you: $ cowsay ‘Alligators are better than cows’ _________________________________ < Alligators are better than cows > ——————————— \\ ^__^ \\ ( oo)\\_ ______ ( __)\\ )\\/\\ ||—-w | || ||
What programming language is cowsay written in?
A python API/console script for the famous cowsay-linux. cowsay for GNU/Linux was initially written in perl by Tony Monroe ([email protected]), with suggestions from Shannon Appel ([email protected]) and contributions from Anthony Polito ([email protected]).
What does the-F option do in cowsay?
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 current directory. Otherwise, cowsay will search the path specified in the COWPATH environment variable.