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cowsay:tldr:48814

cowsay: Print the specified ASCII art saying "hello, world".
$ cowsay -f ${art} "${hello, world}"
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The command "cowsay" is a whimsical command line utility in Unix-like operating systems that generates an ASCII art representation of a cow speaking a message. It allows the user to specify different types of cows and speech bubbles.

In the given command, "cowsay -f ${art} "${hello, world}"", the following is happening:

  1. "cowsay": The main command to run the cowsay utility.

  2. "-f": Specifies the option to select a specific cow file for the ASCII art. In this case, the variable "${art}" is used to represent the cow file. The value of this variable should be provided by the user or set in the shell environment before running the command.

  3. "${hello, world}": The message that the cow will speak. The text "hello, world" will be displayed within the speech bubble of the cow.

To execute this command, you would replace "${art}" with the name of a specific cow file available in the installation of cowsay. For example, if you have a cow file named "dragon.cow", you would run the command as "cowsay -f dragon.cow "hello, world"". The output would then be an ASCII art representation of a dragon speaking the message "hello, world".

This explanation was created by an AI. In most cases those are correct. But please always be careful and never run a command you are not sure if it is safe.
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