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124 lines
4.5 KiB
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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:
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[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/), or [git](http://git-scm.com/).
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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:
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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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#### Arch Linux
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The package is in the official repositories as `community/ponysay`.
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#### Gentoo Linux
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There is a package for Gentoo, to make installation and keeping it up to date easy. You can find it in [this overlay](/etu/aidstu-overlay). The package is named `games-misc/ponysay`.
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#### Debian GNU/Linux and Ubuntu
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The DEB file can be found [here](http://roryholland.co.uk/misc.html#ponysay) and the PPA can be found [here](https://launchpad.net/~blazemore/+archive/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
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[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
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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.
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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)
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If you have a custom colour palette edit your `~/.bashrc` and add
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if [ "$TERM" = "linux" ]; then
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function ponysay
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{
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exec ponysay "$@"
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#RESET PALETTE HERE
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}
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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
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`bash`: required for the main script [file: ponysay]
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`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
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`gcc`: used for compiling ponysaytruncater.c
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`gzip`: used for compressing manpages
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`make`: required to run the make script
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`coreutils`: make script uses install, unlink, rm, ln, mkdir and cp
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`git`: required for submodules
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FAQ
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---
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__Q:__ The output looks like a mess in _(TTY/PuTTY/other)_!
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__A:__ Unfortunately, there's nothing much we can do about it. See [issue 1](https://github.com/erkin/ponysay/issues/1).
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__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)
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that are generated into cow files via [img2xterm](https://github.com/rossy2401/img2xterm) or [util-say](https://github.com/maandree/util-say).
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