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cowsay
Generate ASCII art of a cow with a speech bubble message
Description
cowsay generates an ASCII art picture of a cow with a speech bubble containing the specified message. It supports many different cow files (alternative characters) and is commonly used with fortune for humorous terminal messages.
AI Summary
Generate ASCII art cow (or other characters) with a speech bubble message
Capabilities
- + Display messages in ASCII art speech bubbles
- + Support many alternative character files
- + Pipe text from other commands
Use When
- → You want fun ASCII art messages in the terminal
- → You want to add humor to MOTD or scripts