Animal-say fortune, like cowsay but more animals and faster

animal-say.sh

#!/bin/bash
cat << ENDL

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$(fortune | sed -E 's/^\s+//g' | fold -sbw 40 | sed -E 's/^/    /')

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$(curl -s https://9ol.es/animals.db | shuf -n 1 | tr 'F' '\n' | gawk ' { if (FNR == 1) { printf "     \\  ";} else if (FNR == 2) { printf "      \\ "; } else { printf "        " }; print $0 } ';)
ENDL

see it in action at the hn/hn account here: https://bootstra386.com/WELCOME.HTM

I optimized the db with the following

{ for i in $(seq 1 $(cat animals.db | wc -l )); do 
head -$i animals.db | tail -1 | tr 'F' '\n' | gawk ' { if (FNR == 1) { printf "     \\  ";} else if (FNR == 2) { printf "      \\ "; } else { printf "        " }; print $0 } ' | tr '\n' 'F'; 
echo ""; done } > animals-optimized.db