cowsay -- Linux command line meme generator circa 2001

peron, 8 months ago

I made some .cow files anyone may like.

gaucho_hacker.cow:

<span style="color:#323232;">$the_cow = &lt;&lt;"EOC";
</span><span style="color:#323232;">   $thoughts
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    $thoughts    _________
</span><span style="color:#323232;">         |        |                   ________
</span><span style="color:#323232;">     ____|________|____       ~      |        \
</span><span style="color:#323232;">        //// _____)              ~   ||        \_____
</span><span style="color:#323232;">        _|   (o)(o)           ~    ~ ||              \
</span><span style="color:#323232;">       (o        \|              ~   ||               \
</span><span style="color:#323232;">         |     (..)           ~    ~ ||                \
</span><span style="color:#323232;">         |    /||||\             ~   ||                 |
</span><span style="color:#323232;">         | \     \\           ~    ~ |                  |
</span><span style="color:#323232;">        /|  -----_\\__           ~   |___________----|--+
</span><span style="color:#323232;">       /  \__/_ )    ( ______ ~____      ======      wwwww8 
</span><span style="color:#323232;">      / +___   (/|    )______||_--\\--+  -                8
</span><span style="color:#323232;">     /      +--- +- \/        /________|wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww8
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    |________---____/
</span><span style="color:#323232;">EOC
</span>

peron.cow

<span style="color:#323232;">$the_cow = &lt;&lt;"EOC";
</span><span style="color:#323232;">        $thoughts
</span><span style="color:#323232;">         $thoughts  ,_____._____
</span><span style="color:#323232;">     ,_.    /-_---------_\
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    /  |   ||           ||        /\
</span><span style="color:#323232;">   /  &lt;    \|.__.   .__.|/       | l
</span><span style="color:#323232;">  |    /    |E==&lt;   E==&lt;|      n J |
</span><span style="color:#323232;">  |  /     G|    | |    |D     \   |
</span><span style="color:#323232;">  | |      \|  , q_p ,  |J     _|__/_
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> ====       | /._____.\ |      |\__/|
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> |   |      (   \___J   )      |    |
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> |   |      (  =.___- = )     /    /
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> |   |       (.__-___,)      /    /
</span><span style="color:#323232;">  \   |____----+   |________/    /
</span><span style="color:#323232;">   \        \   \/   _/        /
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    \_____   \  /   /   ______/
</span><span style="color:#323232;">EOC
</span>

17oct.cow

<span style="color:#323232;">$the_cow = &lt;&lt;"EOC";
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> $thoughts
</span><span style="color:#323232;">  $thoughts           _______
</span><span style="color:#323232;">  \o/        \ peron \     ---------
</span><span style="color:#323232;">------+       \-------    | C  G  T |
</span><span style="color:#323232;">:::::::::::::::\::::::::::|---------|:::::::::::
</span><span style="color:#323232;">%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%\%%%%%%%%%|%%%%%%%%%|%%%%%%%%%%%
</span><span style="color:#323232;">&amp;&amp;&amp;&amp;&amp;&amp;&amp;&amp;&amp;&amp;&amp;&amp;&amp;&amp;&amp;&amp;&amp;&amp;&amp;&amp;&amp;&amp;&amp;&amp;&amp;&amp;&amp;&amp;&amp;&amp;&amp;&amp;&amp;&amp;&amp;&amp;&amp;&amp;&amp;&amp;&amp;&amp;&amp;&amp;&amp;&amp;&amp;&amp;
</span><span style="color:#323232;">oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    
</span>

janus2, 10 months ago

w

Ghostalmedia, 10 months ago

Solid meme with great provenance.

Worth a $20 Circuit City E-Machines rebate card at auction.

mcribbs, 10 months ago

Heh, I just remove fortune | cowsay from my login script a few weeks ago. Now I want to add it back.

ckskate, 10 months ago

fortune | cowsay -f bong is my preferred style

bob_wiley, 10 months ago

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bappity, 10 months ago

I wonder if there’s a fork entirely for people that don’t want cowsay default lmao

bob_wiley, 10 months ago

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astraeus, 10 months ago

I’m guessing there’s an engineer or higher-up who is very much attached to the cowsay readout and they refuse to allow it to be Easter egg’d