Cowfiles directory?

Question

My bashrc issues a cow from cowsay and with a random fortune.

Like this:

echo -e "\e[00;33m $(fortune -a -o -s | cowsay -f $(ls /usr/share/cowsay/cows/ | shuf -n1) | sed -e 's/^/       /g')\e[00m"

This works on Linux Mint but I moved to Arch Linux, and the cowfile directory is different now.

Is there a standard way to figure out the cow directory?

score 6 · Accepted Answer · edited Jun 15 '15 at 02:07

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cowsay -l lists all avaliable cowfiles.

cowsay -l | tail -n +2 | tr ' ' '\n' | shuf -n 1

tail -n +2 removes the first line, which states the path to Cow files that will be used ("Cow files in /usr/share/cows:" in cowsay 3.02-8 in Arch linux), tr ' ' '\n' separates the output into lines and, finally, shuf -n 1 chooses a random cow.

edited Jun 15 '15 at 02:07

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answered Oct 08 '13 at 10:31

RSFalcon7

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Remember to mark your answer as 'accepted', so everyone knows that you have solved your problem. – Oct 08 '13 at 17:40
I can't in the first two days... – RSFalcon7 Oct 09 '13 at 15:03
Of course, I forgot that! My apologies. – Oct 09 '13 at 15:47

Cowfiles directory?

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