Cowsay

Cowsay is a hilarious ASCII art tool that lets a cow (or other animals) say the text you define.

Install it using pacman:

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sudo pacman -S cowsay

Use cowsay:

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cowsay <message>

For greedy eyes:

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cowsay -g <message>

There are other ascii animals that you can use in palce of cow you can list them using cowsay -l and switch them with -f

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cowsay -f <animal name> <message>

Options:

• -b Invokes Borg mode
• -d Causes the cow to appear dead
• -p Makes the cow paranoid
• -s Makes the cow appear thoroughly stoned
• -t A tired cow
• -y A youthful cow
• -r Random animal (instead of -f)

Cowthink

Want the cow to think instead of speak? Try:

This changes the speech bubble to a thought bubble, like in comics!

sl

The command sl is a fun tool created to mock the commonly misspelled ls command in Linux.

Install using pacman:

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sudo pacman -S sl

When you run sl, a train appears in your terminal. You can add more fun with various options:

• -a: Accident mode – You’ll see people crying for help. Not for the faint-hearted! ;)
• -l: Miniature train – Shows a smaller train with more coaches.
• -F: Flying train – A train like the Polar Express.
• -e: Interruptible mode – Allows interruption with Ctrl+C. In other modes, you can’t stop the train. But it doesn’t last long unless you have a super-wide monitor.
• -d: Disco Mode – The train alternates colors.
• -G: Advanced trains – A new look, similar to advanced trains like the French TGV.
• -w: Speed boost – Makes the train move faster.
• -[Number]: Custom cars – Adjust the number of train cars.