https://souravgoswami.github.io/cowspeak/
Display a gradient colourful animal with a random quote or your own text in your terminal.
Note that this is only for GNU/Linux systems. It depends on ruby. Cowspeak recommends you to have Ruby 2.4.0+.
💎 This version is intended to run locally, without any root privileges. To run this version, download the repo as zip or clone it, and then run cowspeak (the source code) with ruby. If you want to install cowspeak for all users (as root), then follow the below instructions.
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Download the latest
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Cowspeak Debian edition releases can also be found here.
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Install the deb file:
dpkg -i cowspeak-v<version>.debOr You can use gdebi-gtk / gdebi. -
Sometimes the latest deb package may be a month or two older than the latest source code. In that case, after the installation, you may want to check for an update, which will not use more than 30 KiB of internet data:
`sudo cowspeak -u`
If you don't want to download and install the deb file for some reason, please follow the next section: "Running Cowspeak on Other Distributions ⚙️"
If you want to run cowspeak in Arch Linux / OpenSUSE / Fedora / CentOS / RedHat etc. other GNU/Linux distributions, then please follow the steps:
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Make sure you have Ruby 💎:
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Arch Linux 🏹 :
sudo pacman -S ruby -
Fedora / CentOS:
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For any other distribution, install the Ruby package. When done, follow the next step!
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Run the
as root.
Example:
sudo ruby Root_Installer.rbPress Enter to Confirm each step.
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When the above step succeeds, run:
sudo cowspeak -dl
Hi, my name is cowspeak. I speak a quote on your terminal.
Usage: Run me from the command line without any arguments, and I will
show you a fortune.
⬢ All the Available arguments:
--art or -a Display a tutorial on adding your own art.
--borderh=<ch>/-brh=<ch> Horizontal border character.
--borderv=<ch>/-brv=<ch> Vertical border character.
--bubble=<text>/-bbl=<text> Specify the character of speech balloons.
--documentation/-d Display the documentation.
--file=<path>/-f=<path> Specify the path of your own ASCII art.
--fill=<char>/-fc=<char> Fill the quote area with a character.
--help/-h Display help.
--net=<url>/-n=<url> Read data from a website (in curl format).
--no-art/-na Don't display the animal.
--no-colour/-nc Don't colourize the output.
--no-text/-nt Don't show any text, show the animal.
--read=<file>/-r=<file> Read a file.
--show-arts/-sa Show arts in the default directory.
--text=<text>/-t=<text> Display a custom text.
--version/-v Display the current cowspeak version.
--welcome/-w Show some system details to the user.
⬢ Other Notable Styles:
--blink or -b Blink the texts.
--bold Bold the texts.
--double-underline Double underline texts.
--italic Italicize texts.
--overline Overline texts.
--strikethrough strikethrough texts.
--underline underline texts.
--colour=hex1,hex2,hexN Add N hex colours to texts.
(minimum 2 colours)
⬢ Update Cowspeak:
--download/-dl Download missing files from Github.
--force-update/-fu Forcefully update even if current
version is latest.
--update/-u Update cowspeak if any update is
available.
You have to pass each argument separately. For example, cowspeak -rc rotates the colour of the output, and -w shows a welcome screen with some system status and information. So if you want to use both, you have to use cowspeak -rc -w (instead of cowspeak -rcw).
If you pass an invalid argument, cowspeak will not inform you. It will simply ignore the invalid argument so you can cheer!
Cowspeak considers bugs and security issues very seriously 🐛. If you got any bug in cowspeak, any security issue, or an idea, please let me know via or email me souravgoswami@protonmail.com