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xyproto

Package Maintainer (PM)

From: Oslo

Registered: 2011-01-11

Posts: 43

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botsay

botsay is a brand new utility that is a bit like cowsay, but generates random ASCII robots and can also, optionally, color the output with rainbow-like colors.

Example using fortune

botsay -- $(fortune)

       .-.           .------------------------------------------.
    ._(u u)_.        | Nothing increases your golf score like   |
      (_n_)       --<| witnesses.                               |
    .=[::+]=.        '------------------------------------------'
  ]=' [___] '=[
      /| |\
     (0) (0)

Directing the output back to botsay for a cryptic experience

botsay -- $(botsay;botsay;botsay)

     _._._          .--------------------------------------------.
    -)O O(-         | )_( .--. |- -| '--' |_^_| o==|ooo|==o      |
     \_0_/       --<| |___| // \\ _\\ //_ .===./` .--. /.- -.    |
  .==|>o<|==:=L     | \ '--' "\_n_/" ,"|+ |". _\|+__|/_ ( )      |
  '=c|___|          | __) (__ _._._ .--. -)ooo(- '--' \_=_/      |
     ]| |[          | (m9\:::/\ /___\6 . /___\ . . ..:::::::. .  |
    [_| |_]         '--------------------------------------------'

View the current date

date --iso-8601 | botsay -

      .---.          .-------------.
     } - - {         | 2019-06-03  |
      \_O_/          '-------------'
  .-._/___\_.-.
  ;   \___/   ;
      |_|_|
      /_|_\

Something for the CI system at work?

botsay 'Compilation complete'

     .===.          .----------------------.
    //o o\\         | Compilation complete |
    \\_v_//         '----------------------'
  .==|>o<|==:=L
  '=c|___|
    .'._.'.
    |_| |_|

Enable colors for the complete experience

Using the -c flag:

Quick installation:

* Install the botsay package from AUR or go get -u github.com/xyproto/botsay

GitHub | AUR