Additional ASCII cowfiles for cowsay.

First, download and install cowsay.

• OSX: brew install cowsay
• GNU/Linux:
  • Debian based distros (Ubuntu): sudo apt-get install cowsay
  • Arch based distros: pacman -S cowsay
  • RHEL/CentOS based distros: dnf install cowsay
  • OpenSUSE: zypper install cowsay

Next, you need to place the cowfiles somewhere that cowsay can locate them. I recommend creating a .cowsay folder under your home directory. Clone the contents of this repo in that folder:

git clone https://github.com/bkendzior/cowfiles.git ~/.cowsay

Now, add the new folder to your $COWPATH environment variable. Append this line to your shell's configuration file (.bashrc, .zshrc, .cshrc).

COWPATH="$COWPATH:$HOME/.cowsay/cowfiles"

If you have fortune installed, here is a simple bash function that you can place in your shell's appropriate dotfile (bashrc, zshrc, cshrc) that will give you a useful quip from a funky cow whenever you open a new terminal session.

# Cow-spoken fortunes every time you open a terminal
function cowsayfortune {
    NUMOFCOWS=`cowsay -l | tail -n +2 | wc -w`
    WHICHCOW=$((RANDOM%$NUMOFCOWS+1))
    THISCOW=`cowsay -l | tail -n +2 | sed -e 's/\ /\'$'\n/g' | sed $WHICHCOW'q;d'`

    #echo "Selected cow: ${THISCOW}, from ${WHICHCOW}"
    fortune | cowsay -f $THISCOW -W 100
}

cowsayfortune

find ./cowfiles -name '*.cow' -exec sh -c 'cowsay -f $0 "hello,$(basename -s .cow $0)"' {} \;