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`ponysay` - A cowsay wrapper for ponies.
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Today your terminal, tomorrow the world!
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Installation on GNU/Linux (or other Unix implementations)
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First of all, you need `cowsay` from your local repositories.
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Obtain it from [here ](http://www.nog.net/~tony/warez ) if you wish to compile it yourself.
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This is often sufficient, but if is not you may be missing one of the standard packages: [bash ](ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/bash/ ), [coreutils ](ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/ ) or [sed ](ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/sed/ ).
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[Download ](https://github.com/erkin/ponysay/downloads ) or clone the project.
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In the terminal, `cd` into the ponysay directory and `make && make install` .
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This will install ponysay into the $PREFIX (`/usr` by default, meaning you may need to `make install` as root, e.g. `sudo make install` .)
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If either `make` or `make install` fails you be missing one of the standard packages:
[gcc ](ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gcc/ ), [gzip ](ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gzip/ ), [make ](ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/make/ ) or [coreutils ](ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/ ).
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In order to use ponysay, run:
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ponysay "I am just the cutest pony!"
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Or if you have a specific pony in your mind:
ponysay -f pinkie "Partay!~"
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Run `info ponysay` , `man 6 ponysay` or `ponysay -h` for more information.
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A Spanish manual is available: `man -L es 6 ponysay` .
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#### Gentoo
Theres a package for gentoo, to make install and keeping up to date easy. You can find it in [this overlay ](/etu/aidstu-overlay ). Package is named `games-misc/ponysay` .
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### Pony fortune on terminal startup
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This requires that you have the `fortune` utility installed. You can install it from your repositories (may be named `fortune-mod` )
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or just fetch the source code from [here ](ftp://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/games/amusements/fortune/ ).
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You can try [this ](http://www.reddit.com/r/mylittlelinux/comments/srixi/using_ponysay_with_a_ponified_fortune_warning/ ) script or
[ponypipe ](https://github.com/maandree/ponypipe ) to ponify fortunes.
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Edit your `~/.bashrc` and add this to the end of the file
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fortune | ponysay
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Now every time you open a terminal a pony should give your fortune
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### Pony quotes
Installing [ponyquotes4ponysay ](https://github.com/maandree/ponyquotes4ponysay ) will enable My Little Pony quotes with associated pony.
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Running `ponysay -q` will give you a random pony saying one it its quote from MLP:FiM. Add one or more argument after `-q` to sepecify a
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set of ponies from which one will be selected randomly.
When running `ponysay -l` or `ponysay -L` the ponies which have quotes will be printed bold or bright (depending on terminal).
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### Ponies in TTY (Linux VT)
If you have a custom colour palette edit your `~/.bashrc` and add
if [ "$TERM" = "linux" ]; then
function ponysay
{
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exec ponysay "$@"
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#RESET PALETTE HERE
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}
fi
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Installation on Microsoft™ Windows®
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[¯\\\_(ツ)\_/¯ ](http://i.imgur.com/2nP5N.png )
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Dependencies
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### Required runtime dependencies
`bash` : required for the main script [file: ponysay]
`cowsay` : this is a wrapper for cowsay
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`coreutils` : the main script uses stty, cut, ls, cat, sort, readlink, pwd, head and tail
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`sed` : used to remove .pony from pony names when running `ponysay -l` and `ponysay -l`
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`perl` : required to run `ponysay -l` and `ponysay -L`
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### Package building dependencies
`gcc` : used for compiling ponysaytruncater.c
`gzip` : used for compressing manpages
`make` : required to run the make script
`coreutils` : make script uses install, unlink, rm, ln, mkdir and cp
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FAQ
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__Q:__ The output looks like a mess in _(TTY/PuTTY/other)_ !
__A:__ Unfortunately, there's nothing much we can do about it. See [issue 1 ](https://github.com/erkin/ponysay/issues/1 ).
__Q:__ You are missing _(my-favourite-pony)_ !
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__A:__ [Ask ](https://github.com/erkin/ponysay/issues ) and we'll add!
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__Q:__ Which programs do you use to generate the pony files?
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__A:__ The pony files are actually mostly a bunch of selected [browser ponies ](http://web.student.tuwien.ac.at/~e0427417/browser-ponies/ponies.html )
that are generated into cow files via [img2xterm ](https://github.com/rossy2401/img2xterm ) or [util-say ](https://github.com/maandree/util-say ).
