Cowsay as much as possible
January 7th, 2010
CowsayIfPossible()
{
if [ -z "${1}" ]; then
CowsayIfPossible "Supply some text!";
return;
fi
if which cowsay >> /dev/null; then
cowsay "${1}"
echo =======================================
else
echo "${1}"
fi
}
Cowsay is win. EEEPPIIIICCC WIIIIN.
This BASH script snippet allows the unashamed use of cowsay within bash scripts without fear that it isn’t installed. World peace? That’d be nice, but for now cowsay moooooo!
sudo aptitude install cowsay
New and improved! The previous post on one line!
October 20th, 2009This following bash code outputs the puzzlebot facebook email from my previous post with no extra output. This is one of those “just for fun things” that non-CS people don’t understand.
echo -e "#include <stdio.h>\nint main(int argc, char ** args){printf(\"%d@facebook.com\\\n\", 0xFACEB00C>>2); return 0;}" > fbmail.c; g++ fbmail.c -o fbmail; ./fbmail; rm fbmail.c fbmail