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CowSay Cows

You know, cowsay. Of course you do.

 _____________
< I'm cowsay! >
 -------------
        \   ^__^
         \  (oo)\_______
            (__)\       )\/\
                ||----w |
                ||     ||

And you probably know that there are several 'cows' that you can produce.

$ cowsay -f turkey "gobble gobble"


 _______________
< gobble gobble >
 ---------------
  \                                  ,+*^^*+___+++_
   \                           ,*^^^^              )
    \                       _+*                     ^**+_
     \                    +^       _ _++*+_+++_,         )
              _+^^*+_    (     ,+*^ ^          \+_        )
             {       )  (    ,(    ,_+--+--,      ^)      ^\
            { (@)    } f   ,(  ,+-^ __*_*_  ^^\_   ^\       )
           {:;-/    (_+*-+^^^^^+*+*<_ _++_)_    )    )      /
          ( /  (    (        ,___    ^*+_+* )   <    <      \
           U _/     )    *--<  ) ^\-----++__)   )    )       )
            (      )  _(^)^^))  )  )\^^^^^))^*+/    /       /
          (      /  (_))_^)) )  )  ))^^^^^))^^^)__/     +^^
         (     ,/    (^))^))  )  ) ))^^^^^^^))^^)       _)
          *+__+*       (_))^)  ) ) ))^^^^^^))^^^^^)____*^
          \             \_)^)_)) ))^^^^^^^^^^))^^^^)
           (_             ^\__^^^^^^^^^^^^))^^^^^^^)
             ^\___            ^\__^^^^^^))^^^^^^^^)\\
                  ^^^^^\uuu/^^\uuu/^^^^\^\^\^\^\^\^\^\
                     ___) >____) >___   ^\_\_\_\_\_\_\)
                    ^^^//\\_^^//\\_^       ^(\_\_\_\)
                      ^^^ ^^ ^^^ ^

You can list all the 'cows' with `cowsay -l`, but their names aren't really all that helpful sometimes.

So I is quickly scripted a little something to print examples of all the cows on my system to a text file.

cowsay cows example file

 _______________
< $ fortune -os >
 ---------------
   \
    \
        .--.
       |o_o |
       |:_/ |
      //   \ \
     (|     | )
    /'\_   _/`\
    \___)=(___/


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