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Cows On The InterTubes!

Journal by cafebabe

Before pictures of cats were popular on the Internet, we had text cows:-

$ fortune | cowsay
 ----------------------------------
| What's the major use of cowhide? |
|                                  |
| Holding cows together.           |
 ----------------------------------
     \
      \   ^__^
       \  (oo)\_______
          (__)\       )\/\
              ||----w |
              ||     ||

And now the popular cowsay utility has been cow-patched to handle multi-line input correctly, especially if it contains UTF-8. Here's the archive with a SHA1 of d3cc231704eb8575941478be3ebbc19fb6b0f5c4:-

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end

And here are some example uses:-

$ cowsay -f frog Hey, man. This lillipad is `df | perl -e 'while(defined($line=<STDIN>)){@field=split(/[ \t\n\r]+/,$line);if((index($ENV{'PWD'},$field[5])==0)&&(length($mount)<length($field[5]))){$mount=$field[5];$avail=$field[4]}}print $avail,"\n"'` full. Ribbit.
 ----------------------------------------------
| Hey, man. This lillipad is 99% full. Ribbit. |
 ----------------------------------------------
     \
      \
          oO)-.                       .-(Oo
         /__  _\                     /_  __\
         \  \(  |     ()~()         |  )/  /
          \__|\ |    (-___-)        | /|__/
          '  '--'    ==`-'==        '--'  '

If you're particularly inclined, you can chain/nest instances of cowsay:-

$ ls -l / | cowsay | cowsay | cowthink
 ----------------------------------------------------------------
(  ------------------------------------------------------------  )
( |  --------------------------------------------------------  | )
( | | total 84                                               | | )
( | | drwxr-xr-x   2 root root  4096 May 10 23:11 bin        | | )
( | | drwxr-xr-x   3 root root 16384 Jan  1  1970 boot       | | )
( | | drwxr-xr-x  12 root root  3240 May 28 11:17 dev        | | )
( | | drwxr-xr-x 111 root root  4096 May 28 23:31 etc        | | )
( | | drwxr-xr-x   3 root root  4096 May 10 22:57 home       | | )
( | | drwxr-xr-x  19 root root  4096 May 10 23:12 lib        | | )
( | | drwx------   2 root root 16384 May 10 23:38 lost+found | | )
( | | drwxr-xr-x   2 root root  4096 May 10 22:52 media      | | )
( | | drwxr-xr-x   2 root root  4096 May 10 22:52 mnt        | | )
( | | drwxr-xr-x   7 root root  4096 May 10 23:30 opt        | | )
( | | dr-xr-xr-x 104 root root     0 Jan  1  1970 proc       | | )
( | | drwx------   5 root root  4096 Jun  1 09:04 root       | | )
( | | drwxr-xr-x  12 root root   320 May 28 11:17 run        | | )
( | | drwxr-xr-x   2 root root  4096 Jun  1 05:17 sbin       | | )
( | | drwxr-xr-x   2 root root  4096 May 10 22:52 srv        | | )
( | | dr-xr-xr-x  12 root root     0 May 28 11:17 sys        | | )
( | | drwxrwxrwt  17 root root  4096 Jun  1 09:53 tmp        | | )
( | | drwxr-xr-x  11 root root  4096 May 10 23:27 usr        | | )
( | | drwxr-xr-x  11 root root  4096 May 28 23:27 var        | | )
( |  --------------------------------------------------------  | )
( |      \                                                     | )
( |       \   ^__^                                             | )
( |        \  (oo)\_______                                     | )
( |           (__)\       )\/\                                 | )
( |               ||----w |                                    | )
( |               ||     ||                                    | )
(  ------------------------------------------------------------  )
(      \                                                         )
(       \   ^__^                                                 )
(        \  (oo)\_______                                         )
(           (__)\       )\/\                                     )
(               ||----w |                                        )
(               ||     ||                                        )
 ----------------------------------------------------------------
     o
      o   ^__^
       o  (oo)\_______
          (__)\       )\/\
              ||----w |
              ||     ||

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 21 2016, @04:58PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 21 2016, @04:58PM (#378008)

    Since you assume a mono space font, it might be better to use semigraohical characters to draw with. An example of what I am thinking of are things like the box-drawing characters in code page 437. I believe they are in Unicode somewhere. Plus, that way you can give the cow spots too. My memory is that the cows used to have spots, or was that the dogcow?