Cowponder

A simple terminal command that displays randomly selected philosophical thoughts from a cow

cowponder website

 ______________________________________
( squeezing an ounce of meaning out of )
( this world                           )
 --------------------------------------
        o   ^__^
         o  (oo)\_______
            (__)\       )\/\
                ||----w |
                ||     ||

Installation

OSX

If you already have homebrew installed, just run

brew install maxcai314/cowponder/cowponder

See the homebrew repo here: homebrew-cowponder

Debian

Install the .deb package by running the installer script

curl -fsSL https://max.xz.ax/cowponder/cowponder_debian_installer.sh | sudo bash

Alternatively, download the deb package file and install it manually using dpkg -i <cowponder_file>.deb

Windows

To install for powershell, run

Install-Module cowponder

If, upon running cowponder, you get an error saying running scripts is disabled on this system, run one of these:

# if you are running (or can run) powershell as administrator
Set-ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned

# if you don't have administrator privileges
Set-ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned -Scope CurrentUser

This allows scripts like cowponder to run if they are signed. learn more here

More installation options are availible in the Windows powershell gallery.

Usage

# displays a thought
ponder

# displays a thought from a cow
cowponder

Dependencies

MacOS systems:

• cowsay
• python3
• homebrew

Debian systems:

• cowsay (auto installs if missing)
• python3 (auto installs if missing)
• dpkg
• apt

Windows systems:

• powershell (which has been updated in the past two decades)

Contributors

Cowponder is written by maxcai314 and reid23