cowsay help

[Peter Garrett]

On Wed, 24 Sep 2008 20:08:10 -0700
John Hubbard <ender8282 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Thanks.  That was perfect.  Now, how do I get the the cow to say my motd?

Send the output to a file, or directly to /etc/motd. You can do this
with the following, for example:

printf "This is my multi-line \n message of the day" | cowsay | sudo tee /etc/motd

(all one line -ignore any wrap in the above)

Possibly a better way is to define the wrap with cowsay's "-W" option.
For example:

 printf "This facility is monitored by the Bovine Silliness Alliance (BSA) You have been warned"\!"" \
| cowsay -W 67 | sudo tee /etc/motd

You see this output, and the output is also sent to /etc/motd by the pipe to "tee" :

/ This facility is monitored by the Bovine Silliness Alliance (BSA) \
\ You have been warned!                                                          /
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
        \   ^__^
         \  (oo)\_______
            (__)\       )\/\
                ||----w |
                ||     ||

*grin*

Peter
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