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Re:Cowsay by vander_elst on Saturday March 02, 2024 @05:39AM (#39571592)
I use this very often with my kids (3yo twins). It's fun for them to see animals, dragons and other things popping up on the white screen. I usually ask them what they what they want see, prepare it and then let them press on enter to display it. Simpler things e.g. 'gnu' or 'fox' they can type themselves.
Re:Cowsay by tarcar on Saturday March 02, 2024 @06:03AM (#39571706)
If they like ponies then check out ponysay, just an alternative with some cute colorful ponies in the terminal!
Re:Cowsay by 082349872349872 on Saturday March 02, 2024 @06:25AM (#39571807)
next project: use sed (or your favourite shell/scripting language) as a filter in front of ponysay, to rewrite "anybody"->"anypony", "somebody"->"somepony", etc.
Re:Cowsay by koolba on Saturday March 02, 2024 @06:55AM (#39571931)
Colorful ponies? Blasphemy!

The Unix way is to do one thing and do it well:

    fortune | cowsay | lolcat