kittysay

cowsay, but with a cute kitty :3

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< meow >
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Installation

Cargo

cargo install kittysay

Nix

Available through Nixpkgs.

nix run nixpkgs#kittysay

Usage

kittysay <message>
# or through stdin
echo <message> | kittysay

--width

You can use the --width flag to change the width of the speech bubble. Defaults to 45, maxes out at a little less than the width of your terminal if you try to pass a very large number.

$ kittysay "meow mrrrow mrrrp nyaaa nya nyaaa meow meowwww nyaaa meowwww"

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/ meow mrrrow mrrrp nyaaa nya nyaaa meow \
\ meowwww nyaaa meowwww                  /
  --------------------------------------
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$ kittysay "meow mrrrow mrrrp nyaaa nya nyaaa meow meowwww nyaaa meowwww" --width 1000

  ------------------------------------------------------------
< meow mrrrow mrrrp nyaaa nya nyaaa meow meowwww nyaaa meowwww >
  ------------------------------------------------------------
  \
    \
      ／l、
    （ﾟ､ ｡ ７
      l  ~ヽ
      じしf_,)ノ

$ kittysay "meow mrrrow mrrrp nyaaa nya nyaaa meow meowwww nyaaa meowwww" --width 1

  -------
/ meow    \
| mrrrow  |
| mrrrp   |
| nyaaa   |
| nya     |
| nyaaa   |
| meow    |
| meowwww |
| nyaaa   |
\ meowwww /
  -------
  \
    \
      ／l、
    （ﾟ､ ｡ ７
      l  ~ヽ
      じしf_,)ノ

--think

You can use the --think flag to enable "think" mode, where the speech bubbles are replaced with thought bubbles (similar to the cowthink program).

$ kittysay --think ":3"

  ⏜⏜
( :3 )
  ⏝⏝
  ○
    ○
      ／l、
    （ﾟ､ ｡ ７
      l  ~ヽ
      じしf_,)ノ

License

GPL-3.0