Say it with style in CLI¶
So I glued some awesome software together into a shell one-liner and now I can make my announcements with a rainbow tortoise on the CLI :)
A pointless story trying to give more context than there really is¶
My home is on the frontier of the CLI-Land. It’s a tough but honest life - without any limitations, but also without some conveniences. I also work from my home, but sometimes you gotta make trips to the crowded and loud GUI-Town for some basic supplies. Like your vital YouTube fix.
Image taken from this article about The VVitch:
The code¶
The ZSH function (should be compatible with Bash) looks like this:
function say()
{
clear
# I know, it's a tortoise, ugh :) Upstream problems
cowsay -f turtle "$@" | lolcat --freq 0.2 --seed 900 --speed 300 --animate
}
and can be found in my configs’ and scripts’ repo.
