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cowsay
Original author(s)	Tony Monroe
Stable release	3.03
Repository	github.com/tnalpgge/rank-amateur-cowsay ;
Written in	Perl
Operating system	Cross-platform
Available in	English
License	Artistic License / GNU General Public License
Website	http://www.nog.net/~tony/warez/cowsay.shtml

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Cowsay is a program which generates ASCII pictures of a cow with a message^[1]. It can also generate pictures using pre-made images of other animals. There is also a related program called cowthink, with cows with thought bubbles rather than speech bubbles.

  _______________________ 
 < Typical cowsay output! >
  ----------------------- 
         \   ^__^
          \  (oo)\_______
             (__)\       )\/\
                 ||----w |
                 ||     ||

.cow files for Cowsay exist which are able to produce different variants of "cows", with different kinds of "eyes", and so forth.^[2] It is sometimes used on IRC, desktop screenshots, and in software documentation. It is more or less a joke within hacker culture, but has been around long enough that its use is rather widespread. In 2007 it was highlighted as a Debian package of the day.^[3]

Cowsay is written in the Perl programming language, and as such is easily adaptable to system tasks in Unix, such as telling users their home directories are full, they have new mail, et cetera. Additionally, it is quite adaptable to the Common Gateway Interface.^[4]

References

^ Linux Gazette Issue 67
^ "Richard Stallman for cowsay".
^ "cowsay: a configurable talking and thinking cow". Debian Package of the Day. October 28, 2007.
^ Serverwatch Article

External links

[1] Linux Gazette Issue 67

[RMS_for_cowsay-2] "Richard Stallman for cowsay".

[Debian_PotD-3] "cowsay: a configurable talking and thinking cow". Debian Package of the Day. October 28, 2007.

[4] Serverwatch Article

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