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.TH COWSAY 1 "Barnyard Animal Management"
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.SH NAME
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cowsay, cowthink \- configurable speaking/thinking cow
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.SH SYNOPSIS
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cowsay
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\%[\-e eye_string]
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\%[\-f cowfile]
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\%[\-h]
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\%[\-l]
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\%[\-n]
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\%[\-T tongue_string]
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\%[\-W column]
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\%[\-bdgpstwy]
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.SH DESCRIPTION
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.I Cowsay
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generates an ASCII picture of a cow saying something provided by the
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user. If run with no arguments, it accepts standard input, word-wraps
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the message given at about 40 columns, and prints the cow saying the
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given message on standard output.
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To aid in the use of arbitrary messages with arbitrary whitespace, use the
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.B -n
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option. If it is specified, the given message will not
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be word-wrapped. This is possibly useful if you want to make the cow
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think or speak in figlet(6). If
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.B -n
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is specified, there must not be any command-line arguments left after
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all the switches have been processed.
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The
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.B -W
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specifies roughly (where the message should be wrapped. The default is
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equivalent to
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.B -W 40
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i.e. wrap words at or before the 40th column.
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If any command-line arguments are left over after all switches have
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been processed, they become the cow\'s message. The program will not
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accept standard input for a message in this case.
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There are several provided modes which change the appearance of the
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cow depending on its particular emotional/physical state. The
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.B \-b
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option initiates Borg mode;
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.B \-d
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causes the cow to appear dead;
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.B \-g
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invokes greedy mode;
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.B \-p
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causes a state of paranoia to come over the cow;
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.B \-s
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makes the cow appear thoroughly stoned;
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.B \-t
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yields a tired cow;
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.B \-w
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is somewhat the opposite of \-t, and initiates wired mode;
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.B \-y
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brings on the cow's youthful appearance.
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The user may specify the
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.B -e
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option to select the appearance of the cow's eyes, in which
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case the first two characters of the argument string
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.B eye_string
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will be used. The default eyes are 'oo'. The tongue is similarly
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configurable through
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.B -T
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and
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.B tongue_string;
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it must be two characters and does not appear by
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default. However, it does appear in the 'dead' and 'stoned' modes.
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Any configuration done by
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.B -e
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and
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.B -T
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will be lost if one of the provided modes is used.
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The
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.B -f
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option specifies a particular cow picture file (``cowfile'') to
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use. If the cowfile spec contains / then it will be interpreted
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as a path relative to the current directory. Otherwise, cowsay
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will search the path specified in the COWPATH environment variable.
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To list all cowfiles on the current $COWPATH, invoke
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.B cowsay
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with the
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.B -l
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switch.
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If the program is invoked as
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.B cowthink
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then the cow will think its message instead of saying it.
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.SH COWFILE FORMAT
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A cowfile is made up of a simple block of perl(1) code, which
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assigns a picture of a cow to the variable ``$the_cow''. Should
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you wish to customize the eyes or the tongue of the cow, then the
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variables ``$eyes'' and ``$tongue'' may be used. The trail leading
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up to the cow\'s message balloon is composed of the character(s)
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in the ``$thoughts'' variable. Any backslashes must be reduplicated
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to prevent interpolation. The name of a cowfile should end with
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``.cow'', otherwise it is assumed not to be a cowfile. Also,
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at-signs (``@'') must be backslashed because that is what Perl 5
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expects.
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.SH COMPATIBILITY WITH OLDER VERSIONS
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Version 3.0 is fully backward-compatible with 2.x versions. If
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you're still using a 1.x version, consider upgrading.
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.SH ENVIRONMENT
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The COWPATH environment variable, if present, will be used to search
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for cowfiles. It contains a colon-separated list of directories,
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much like PATH or MANPATH. It should always contain the
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/usr/local/share/cows directory, or at least a directory with a
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file called ``default.cow'' in it.
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.SH FILES
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/usr/local/share/cows holds a sample set of cowfiles. If your
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COWPATH is not explicitly set, it automatically contains this directory.
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.SH BUGS
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If there are any left, please notify the author at the address below.
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.SH AUTHOR
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Tony Monroe (tmonroe@csua.berkeley.edu), with suggestions from Shannon
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Appel (appel@csua.berkeley.edu) and contributions from Anthony Polito
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(aspolito@csua.berkeley.edu).
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.SH SEE ALSO
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perl(1), wall(1), nwrite(1), figlet(6), /csua/bin/rootcow
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