cowsay(1)
NAME
- cowsay/cowthink - configurable speaking/thinking cow (and
- a bit more)
SYNOPSIS
- cowsay [-e eye_string] [-f cowfile] [-h] [-l] [-n] [-T
- tongue_string] [-W column] [-bdgpstwy]
DESCRIPTION
Arraywill be interpreted as a path relative to the current directory.
Otherwise, cowsay will search the path specified in the COWPATH
environment variable. To list all cowfiles on the current
COWPATH
- If the program is invoked as cowthink then the cow will
- think its message instead of saying it.
COWFILE FORMAT
ArrayShould you wish to customize the eyes or the tongue of the cow,
then the variables $eyes and $tongue may be used. The trail
leading up to the cow's message balloon is composed of the character(s) in the $thoughts variable. Any backslashes must be
reduplicated to prevent interpolation. The name of a cowfile
should end with .cow, otherwise it is assumed not to be a cowfile. Also, at-signs (``@'') must be backslashed because that is
what Perl 5 expects.
COMPATIBILITY WITH OLDER VERSIONS
What older versions? :-)
- ArrayAnd tell me where you got the older versions, since I didn't exactly put them up for world-wide access.
Oh, just so you know, this manual page documents version - 3.02 of cowsay.
ENVIRONMENT
Arraydirectories, much like PATH or MANPATH. It should always contain
the /usr/share/cowsay/cows directory, or at least a directory
with a file called default.cow in it.
FILES
Arraythis directory.
BUGS
- If there are any, please notify the author at the address
- below.
AUTHOR
ArrayPolito (aspolito@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU).