https://github.com/deflatedpickle/flamingo
It's like your dad's cowsay, but pink!
https://github.com/deflatedpickle/flamingo
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It's like your dad's cowsay, but pink!
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/deflatedpickle/flamingo
- Owner: DeflatedPickle
- License: mit
- Created: 2019-02-11T17:12:23.000Z (over 6 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2020-08-06T23:41:08.000Z (about 5 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-03-30T10:11:15.900Z (6 months ago)
- Topics: cowsay
- Language: Perl
- Homepage:
- Size: 20.5 KB
- Stars: 10
- Watchers: 1
- Forks: 0
- Open Issues: 3
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- License: LICENSE
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README
# flamingo
A joke command.
## Description
It's a `cowsay` clone, written to practice Perl bad practices.
## Installing
I plan to upload it to Linix and Windows repositories (see #1)... when I learn how. Until then, it's a manual install.
## Example Usage
```
>perl flamingo.pl Hello, World!
_______________
/ \
| Hello, World! |
\____________, /
\/
___
/^ \
//--| |
; /,/
,/ / _/"""\
| "\_/ /, '\
\, \_, \ \
`\____,--,\/ \;
||\\ \;
|| \\
|| /,>
||//
|//
//
//|
```
You can even pipe the flamingo into the flamingo, to make the flamingo say a flamingo saying a given phrase!
```
>perl flamingo.pl Hello, World! | perl flamingo.pl
_________________________________________
/ \
| _______________ |
| / \ |
| | Hello, World! | |
| \____________, / |
| \/ |
| ___ |
| /" \ |
| //--| | |
| ; /,/ |
| ,/ / _/"""\ |
| | "\_/ /, '\ |
| \, \_, \ \ |
| `\____,--,\/ \; |
| ||\\ \; |
| || \\ |
| || /,> |
| ||// |
| |// |
| // |
| //| |
\____________, ,_________________________/
\/
___
/o \
//--| |
; /,/
,/ / _/"""\
| "\_/ /, '\
\, \_, \ \
`\____,--,\/ \;
||\\ \;
|| \\
|| /,>
||//
|//
//
//|
```
You can do this endlessly. Endlessly. END--LESS--LY!
## Usage Notes
- With each run, the eye used is random (from [this array](https://github.com/DeflatedPickle/flamingo/blob/55ee581c5112ea0606abd9b4d40ac0968bc874f3/flamingo.pl#L136)). This cannot be changed (see #3), sorry!
- The flamingo doesn't have [feet](https://github.com/DeflatedPickle/flamingo/blob/55ee581c5112ea0606abd9b4d40ac0968bc874f3/flamingo.pl#L215-L221). You can make it have feet by passing `-legs`
- You can make the flamingo wear a [fancy top hat](https://github.com/DeflatedPickle/flamingo/blob/55ee581c5112ea0606abd9b4d40ac0968bc874f3/flamingo.pl#L187-L192) with the flag `-hat`
- I spent hours writing a [big flamingo](https://github.com/DeflatedPickle/flamingo/blob/55ee581c5112ea0606abd9b4d40ac0968bc874f3/flamingo.pl#L153-L185) instead of doing school work, before realising it was too big and ugly for the terminal. You can use it, and support my wasted time, by passing `-big`
## Technical Notes
- Piping into `flamingo.pl` works, due to the code [here](https://github.com/DeflatedPickle/flamingo/blob/55ee581c5112ea0606abd9b4d40ac0968bc874f3/flamingo.pl#L238-L244), although I do not remember why it works
- Piping multi-line text works!
- Piping long text works, as long as your terminal is wide enough to show it, or it doesn't have word-wrap!
- When the given text is too long for the speach bubble, it will extend the speach bubble to the right without moving the flamingo
- Piping text from things like `echo` does work, though slightly broken (see #2)