Fitheach on Nostr: I've just stumbled across something whimsical, and I love it. It is a package called ...
I've just stumbled across something whimsical, and I love it.
It is a package called xcowsay. Its sole purpose is to display some text in the form of a speech bubble, coming from a graphical cow. For example:
~$ echo this is awesome | xcowsay -t 50
produces the output shown in the screenshot. A typical usage would be displaying text from the fortune package.
If you prefer, there is a terminal version called cowsay, that draws an ascii-art cow.
#Linux #Unix #FOSS #FLOSS
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