fortune cowsay - I love the fact in Linux that you can put fortune | cowsay every time you start a new terminal session - devRant

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erroronline1

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i'll put that one on my pro-list
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CozyPlanes

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.
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j4cobgarby

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I assume you've heard of the cowsay flag to change the cow to different animals?
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athlon

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@j4cobgarby yup
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PrivateGER

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OK, going to write a script that does that + different animals every time I log in.
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qdsp13

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Even better, fortune | cowsay | lolcat
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powerfulparadox

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Fortune is one of the best things ever. Cowsay is fine, but there are enough long fortunes that I prefer my fortunes straight up. (I also spend a large amount of time just filling my terminal with amazingness. 😳)
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dufferz

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@qdsp13 yes with bofh-fortunes !
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git-gud

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@PrivateGER tactical dot.
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dder

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@alice maybe this is a protip 🤔
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PacRat

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the startup scripts are indeed beautiful
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iSwimInTheC

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fortune | cowsay | cowsay | cowsay | cowsay | lolcat
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Electrux

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U can also do that in Mac... Just saying... 😂😂😂
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iSwimInTheC

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@garret the cow ate the other cows and vomited them up
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Noob

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Combine that with "retro terminal".
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dder

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@Noob would you be able to share a picture ?
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Noob

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@dder I failed doing so on the phone.
Google 'cool-retro-term'.
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CodeAlex

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what distro is that pls?
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athlon

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@CodeAlex Ubuntu Budgie 18.04
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CodeAlex

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@athlon thx
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ziadkiwan

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Package name please 😂😂📦
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sak96

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@ziadkiwan
Put this in you .bashrc
echo "fortune | cowsay -f $(ls /usr/share/cowsay/cows/ | shuf -n 1)" >> ~/.bashrc
Packages installation:
> apt install fortune cowsay

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