Posh-Cowsay - Cowsay for Windows Powershell

A shell cannot be called civilised until it has a talking cow.

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Based on Tony Monroe's original Unix terminal program cowsay:

http://www.nog.net/~tony/warez/cowsay-3.03.tar.gz

Usage

Posh-Cowsay exposes a single function cowsay. Any non-option args passed to cowsay are treated as the message:

> cowsay The build is broken

For more examples see the built-in Powershell help:

> get-help cowsay -examples

Install

Posh-Cowsay is a single Powershell Module file with no dependencies. To install it:

1. Copy cowsay.psm1 into a new folder called cowsay within your modules folder (C:\Users\UserName\Documents\WindowsPowerShell\Modules\cowsay on Windows 7).

2. Open a new Powershell terminal and import the module

   Import-Module cowsay

3. cowsay That was easy ... ish

TODO

1. Support the modes that the original cowsay supported e.g. XX for the cows eyes.
2. Support for arbitary whitespace (the -n option in cowsay).
3. A way of dealing with cow files or an equivalent.

Contributors

• John Kane
• Andrew Thomson

License

Posh-Cowsay is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

Posh-Cowsay is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.