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Best ones: vomit cow and Kosh.

Kosh works exceptionally well with tiny zen sayings.

    ______________________________________ 
   < Mind your words, they are important. >
    -------------------------------------- 
       \
        \
         \
     ___       _____     ___
    /   \     /    /|   /   \
   |     |   /    / |  |     |
   |     |  /____/  |  |     |     
   |     |  |    |  |  |     |
   |     |  | {} | /   |     |
   |     |  |____|/    |     |
   |     |    |==|     |     |
   |      \___________/      |
   |                         |
   |                         |


whoa whoa whoa there is a command-line vorlon available? what?


    $ ls /usr/share/cows/
    beavis.zen.cow  dragon-and-cow.cow     hellokitty.cow  moofasa.cow    sodomized.cow    turtle.cow
    bong.cow        dragon.cow             kiss.cow        moose.cow      stegosaurus.cow  tux.cow
    bud-frogs.cow   elephant.cow           kitty.cow       mutilated.cow  stimpy.cow       udder.cow
    bunny.cow       elephant-in-snake.cow  koala.cow       ren.cow        supermilker.cow  vader.cow
    cheese.cow      eyes.cow               kosh.cow        satanic.cow    surgery.cow      vader-koala.cow
    cower.cow       flaming-sheep.cow      luke-koala.cow  sheep.cow      telebears.cow    www.cow
    daemon.cow      ghostbusters.cow       meow.cow        skeleton.cow   three-eyes.cow
    default.cow     head-in.cow            milk.cow        small.cow      turkey.cow


On Debian, how do I get all these magnificent cows?


Once you have cowsay installed, you can invoke them with cowsay -f.

For instance: cowsay -f kosh "Understanding is a three-edged sword."


sudo apt-get install cowsay

Cows are installed to /usr/share/cowsay/cows




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