{"id":46,"date":"2007-06-09T00:51:25","date_gmt":"2007-06-09T04:51:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.virtualroadside.com\/blog\/index.php\/2007\/06\/09\/rndsay-random-cow-sayings-and-fortune-combined\/"},"modified":"2007-06-09T00:51:25","modified_gmt":"2007-06-09T04:51:25","slug":"rndsay-random-cow-sayings-and-fortune-combined","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.virtualroadside.com\/blog\/index.php\/2007\/06\/09\/rndsay-random-cow-sayings-and-fortune-combined\/","title":{"rendered":"rndsay: Random cow sayings and fortune combined"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever used <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redellipse.net\/code\/fortune\">fortune<\/a>? Or how about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nog.net\/~tony\/warez\/cowsay.shtml\">cowsay<\/a> (or for that matter, have you even heard of it?) . If you haven&#8217;t heard of them&#8230; well, you&#8217;re missing part of your Linux experience.<\/p>\n<p>Fortune (or fortune-mod), is a program that prints out random quotes\/funny things on the console &#8212; it is IMHO essential to have in ANY linux system, especially if you run it on login. Cowsay is a program that prints out the text passed to it in a bubble, with a cow illustration. Its extremely amusing.<\/p>\n<p>Anyways, I combined fortune and cowsay awhile ago in a script that randomly selects a different cow and cow type to display the fortune, and I have it installed in my \/etc\/bash\/bashrc file. Heres an example of some output from it.<\/p>\n<pre>\r\n ________________________________________\r\n( Do you know the difference between     )\r\n( education and experience? Education is )\r\n( what you get when you read the fine    )\r\n( print; experience is what you get when )\r\n( you don't.                             )\r\n(                                        )\r\n( -- Pete Seeger                         )\r\n ----------------------------------------\r\n        o   ^__^\r\n         o  (@@)\\_______\r\n            (__)\\       )\\\/\\\r\n                ||----w |\r\n                ||     ||\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>Enjoy! <a href=\"http:\/\/www.virtualroadside.com\/download\/rndsay.tar.bz2\">http:\/\/www.virtualroadside.com\/download\/rndsay.tar.bz2<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever used fortune? Or how about cowsay (or for that matter, have you even heard of it?) . If you haven&#8217;t heard of them&#8230; well, you&#8217;re missing part of your Linux experience. Fortune (or fortune-mod), is a program that prints out random quotes\/funny things on the console &#8212; it is IMHO essential to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virtualroadside.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virtualroadside.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virtualroadside.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virtualroadside.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virtualroadside.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.virtualroadside.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virtualroadside.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virtualroadside.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virtualroadside.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}