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| Original author(s) | Tony Monroe |
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| Initial release | 1999 |
| Stable release | 3.8.4[1] 
/ 30 November 2024 |
| Repository | |
| Written in | Perl |
| Operating system | Cross-platform |
| Available in | English |
| License | Artistic License / GNU General Public License |
| Website | Official website |
cowsay is a program that generates ASCII art pictures of a cow with a message.[2] It can also generate pictures using pre-made images of other animals, such as Tux the Penguin, the Linux mascot. It is written in Perl. There is also a related program called cowthink, with cows with thought bubbles rather than speech bubbles. .cow files for cowsay exist which are able to produce different variants of cows, with different kinds of eyes, and so forth.[3] It is sometimes used on IRC, desktop screenshots, and in software documentation. It is more or less a joke within hacker culture, but has been around long enough that its use is rather widespread. In 2007, it was highlighted as a Debian package of the day.[4]
- ^ "Release 3.8.4". 30 November 2024. Retrieved 29 December 2024.
- ^ Orr, Mike (June 2001). "cowsay--ASCII Art for Your Screen". Linux Gazette. Archived from the original on 2012-03-19. Retrieved 2012-04-24.
- ^ Newborough, Philip (2007-10-05). "A Virtual Richard Stallman for Cowsay Hack". Archived from the original on 2011-07-25.
- ^ Beshenov, Alexey (2007-10-28). "cowsay: a configurable talking and thinking cow". Debian Package of the Day. Archived from the original on 2007-10-30. Retrieved 2022-01-31.
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