Is there a linux program similar to cowsay, but breeding a cat, instead of a cow?

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cowsay can take out not only cowsay from the box, but also a whole range of other “cows” animals (from chickens to elephants and snakes). The entire list can be obtained from himself:

 $ cowsay -l Cow files in /usr/share/cowsay/cows: apt beavis.zen bong bud-frogs bunny calvin cheese cock cower daemon default dragon dragon-and-cow duck elephant elephant-in-snake eyes flaming-sheep ghostbusters gnu head-in hellokitty kiss koala kosh luke-koala mech-and-cow milk moofasa moose mutilated pony pony-smaller ren sheep skeleton snowman sodomized-sheep stegosaurus stimpy suse three-eyes turkey turtle tux unipony unipony-smaller vader vader-koala www

You can use the corresponding cows with the -f :

 $ cowsay -f elephant-in-snake "На самом деле я съела шляпу, а не слона, но ни кому не говорите." ___________________________________ / На самом деле я съела шляпу, а не \ \ слона. Но ни кому не говорите. / ----------------------------------- \ \ .... . ........ . . . . ....... ......... ..............................

Unfortunately, the authors made a terrible omission and did not include a single cat in the basic delivery. Fortunately, this is easy to fix: you just need to create your own cat in the shape of a cat. In fact, cows are perl-scripts, although they are fairly simple, but you should be careful when writing them. Examples can be found in /usr/share/cowsay/cows . ? whoever, like me, is not endowed with the skill of ASCII-art, you can simply find a cat in Google and paint him an arrow of direct speech:

 $ cat ~/tmp/cat.cow ## an ASCII cat found in google $the_cow = <<"EOC" $thoughts $thoughts |\\_._/| |-oo-| ( T ) .^`-^-'^. `. ; .' | | | | | ((_((|))_)) EOC

Result:

 $ cowsay -f ~/tmp/cat.cow "Кошки это хорошо." ___________________ < Кошки это хорошо. > ------------------- \ \ |\_._/| |-oo-| ( T ) .^`-^-'^. `. ; .' | | | | | ((_((|))_))

In order to make a cat a cow available without specifying the full path, you can put it to the others in /usr/share/cowsay/cows or add your path to it to the COWPATH variable.

Remarks:

  • Before launching the script, special variables are set, $thoughts , $eyes and $tongue , in which images for thoughts, eyes and language are stored, respectively.

  • in HEREDOC pearl, as above, the bexleshes need to be further escaped.

  • See man cowsay