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`ponysay` - A cowsay wrapper for ponies.
Today your terminal, tomorrow the world!
Installation on GNU/Linux (or other Unix implementations)
---------------------------------------------------------
First of all, you need `cowsay` from your local repositories.
Obtain it from [here](http://www.nog.net/~tony/warez/cowsay.shtml) if you wish to compile it yourself.
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/).
[Download](https://github.com/erkin/ponysay/downloads) or clone the project.
In the terminal, `cd` into the ponysay directory and `make && make install`.
This will install ponysay into the $PREFIX (`/usr` by default, meaning you may need to `make install` as root, e.g. `sudo make install`.)
If either `make` or `make install` fails you be missing one of the standard packages:
[gcc](ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gcc/), [gzip](ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gzip/), [make](ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/make/) or [coreutils](ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/).
In order to use ponysay, run:
ponysay "I am just the cutest pony!"
Or if you have a specific pony in your mind:
ponysay -f pinkie "Partay!~"
Run `info ponysay`, `man 6 ponysay` or `ponysay -h` for more information.
A Spanish manual is available: `man -L es 6 ponysay`.
### Pony fortune on terminal startup
This requires that you have the `fortune` utility installed. You can install it from your repositories (may be named `fortune-mod`)
or just fetch the source code from [here](ftp://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/games/amusements/fortune/).
You can try [this](http://www.reddit.com/r/mylittlelinux/comments/srixi/using_ponysay_with_a_ponified_fortune_warning/) script or
[ponypipe](https://github.com/maandree/ponypipe) to ponify fortunes.
Edit your `~/.bashrc` and add this to the end of the file
fortune | ponysay
Now every time you open a terminal a pony should give your fortune
### Ponies in TTY (Linux VT)
If you have a custom colour palette edit your `~/.bashrc` and add
if [ "$TERM" = "linux" ]; then
function ponysay
{
exec ponysay "$@"
#RESET PALETTE HERE
}
fi
Installation on Microsoft™ Windows®
-----------------------------------
[¯\\\_(ツ)\_/¯](http://i.imgur.com/2nP5N.png)
Dependencies
------------
### Required runtime dependencies
`bash`: required for the main script [file: ponysay]
`cowsay`: this is a wrapper for cowsay
`coreutils`: the main script uses stty, cut, ls, cat, head and tail
`sed`: used to remove .pony from pony named when running `ponysay -l`
### 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
FAQ
---
__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)_!
__A:__ [Ask](https://github.com/erkin/ponysay/issues) and we'll add!
__Q:__ Which programs do you use to generate the pony files?
__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).
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