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Colorful bash promtps
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ColorfulBash
#! /bin/bash
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# Colorful Bash Prompts
# To be added to .bashrc
# Referred from https://schier.co/blog/2016/08/09/add-colorful-cows-to-your-terminal/
# Modified the random file picker to bash
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randpos=$(awk -v min=1 -v max=$(cowsay -l | tail -n +2 | wc -w | tr -d ' ') 'BEGIN{srand(); print int(min+rand()*(max-min+1))}')
fortune | cowsay -f `echo $(cowsay -l | tail -n +2) | cut -f$randpos -d' '` | lolcat --seed 0 --spread 1.0
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