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shell script for some command line fun
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| #!/bin/bash | |
| # Dependencies: fortune, cowsay, lolcat and coreutils | |
| # brew install fortune cowsay lolcat coreutils | |
| # Directory where the ASCII art is | |
| cowfiledir='/usr/local/Cellar/cowsay/3.04/share/cows/' | |
| randfile=$(ls $cowfiledir/*.cow | gshuf -n 1) | |
| basefile=$(basename $randfile) | |
| cowarg=${basefile%.*} | |
| arr[0]='b' | |
| arr[1]='d' | |
| arr[2]='g' | |
| arr[3]='p' | |
| arr[4]='s' | |
| arr[5]='t' | |
| arr[6]='w' | |
| arr[7]='y' | |
| randeye=$[$RANDOM % 8] | |
| fortune -a | cowsay -${arr[$randeye]}nf $cowarg | lolcat |
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Picks a fortune (allowing for offensive fortunes), picks a random ASCII art "cow" to say the fortune in a speech bubble, as well as a random eye pattern for the "cow", and colorizes it.
Works for Mac OS: for Linux systems, simply change
gshuftoshufon line 7