Manish Chakravarty
Cowsay Man page: hilarious!
This is /NOT/ fiction.. have a look at the screenshot to know more ..
( and yes install it! )
cowsay(1)
cowsay(1)
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. 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 message 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 command-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 message. The program will
not accept standard input for a message in this case.
There are several provided modes which change the
appearance of the cow depending on its particular emotional/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 appearance of
the cow's eyes, in which case the first two characters of the argument
string eye_string will be used. The default eyes are 'oo'. The
tongue is similarly configurable
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 configuration done by -e and -T will be lost if
one of the provided 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 current 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
composed 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 versions. 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/local/share/cows directory, or at least
a directory with a file called default.cow in it.
FILES
/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_textproc_cowsay/work/destroot/opt/local/share/cows
holds a sample set of cowfiles. If your COWPATH is not explicitly
set, it automatically
contains 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)
--
Manish Chakravarty
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Cowsay Man page: hilarious!
This is /NOT/ fiction.. have a look at the screenshot to know more ..
( and yes install it! )
cowsay(1)
cowsay(1)
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. 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 message 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 command-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 message. The program will
not accept standard input for a message in this case.
There are several provided modes which change the
appearance of the cow depending on its particular emotional/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 appearance of
the cow's eyes, in which case the first two characters of the argument
string eye_string will be used. The default eyes are 'oo'. The
tongue is similarly configurable
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 configuration done by -e and -T will be lost if
one of the provided 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 current 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
composed 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 versions. 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/local/share/cows directory, or at least
a directory with a file called default.cow in it.
FILES
/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_textproc_cowsay/work/destroot/opt/local/share/cows
holds a sample set of cowfiles. If your COWPATH is not explicitly
set, it automatically
contains 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)
--
Manish Chakravarty
Blog: manish-chaks.livejournal.com/
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/manishchakravarty
Twitter: twitter.com/ManishChaks
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