cowsay ☆

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Description:
Apjanke's fork of the classic cowsay project

Type: Formula | Latest Version: 3.8.4@0 | Tracked Since: Dec 17, 2025

Links: Homepage | formulae.brew.sh

Category: Developer tools

Tags: cli ascii-art terminal utility unix

Install: brew install cowsay

About:
Cowsay is a command-line utility that generates ASCII art of a cow with a speech bubble containing user-provided text. Apjanke's fork maintains and modernizes this classic Unix tool, ensuring compatibility with contemporary systems. It serves as a humorous utility for terminal messages, system notifications, and creative scripting outputs.

Key Features:

Generates configurable ASCII art animals and characters
Supports custom messages in speech bubbles
Includes various pre-built cow files and templates
Pipable for integration with shell scripts and command chains

Use Cases:

Creating humorous system notifications and login messages
Enhancing terminal output in scripts and automation workflows
Generating visual separators or banners in console applications

Alternatives:

ponysay – More extensive character set with pony themes, larger footprint
sl – Trains instead of cows, simpler single-purpose utility

License: GPL-3.0-only

Bottles available for: all

Version History

Detected	Version	Rev	Change	Commit
Nov 3, 2024 9:12am		1	VERSION_BUMP	3e5d4ab5
Sep 14, 2024 7:53pm		1	VERSION_BUMP	ea7e4236