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shell script for some command line fun
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asdf.sh
#!/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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eigenfoo commented Sep 10, 2017 •
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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 gshuf to shuf on line 7

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