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56 lines
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ponysay — cowsay with ponies
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```
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<3 ./ponysay.py --help
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usage: ponysay.py [-h] [-p PONY] [-q] [-c] [-C] [-w WIDTH] [-b BALLOON]
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[text [text ...]]
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Cowsay with ponies
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positional arguments:
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text The text to be placed in the speech bubble
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optional arguments:
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-h, --help show this help message and exit
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-p PONY, --pony PONY The name of the pony to be used. Use "-p list" to list
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all ponies, "-p random" (default) to use a random
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pony.
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-q, --quote Use a random quote of the pony being displayed as text
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-c, --center Use a random quote of the pony being displayed as text
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-C, --center-text Center the text in the bubble
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-w WIDTH, --width WIDTH
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Terminal width. Use 0 for unlimited width. Default:
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autodetect
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-b BALLOON, --balloon BALLOON
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Balloon style to use. Use "-b list" to list available
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styles.
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```
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This is my fork of https://github.com/erkin/ponysay
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I really liked the concept, but I sort-of WTF-ed at the 2458-line python script powering it. So I rewrote the thing from scratch in actual python (not that bad since most of the work is done by util-say). Also, I missed a "--center"-option, so I added one. This rewrite is 117 lines long, and that includes the 7 original bubble styles which now are embedded in the python script. This means 95.2% less bloat, which I consider a success. Also, the rewrite is about 50-85% faster.
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Fork me on github: https://github.com/jaseg/ponysay
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The repo now also contains a small script for providing PAAS (Ponies As A Service) via the [QOTD protocol defined in RFC 865](https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc865).
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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:__ Yeah, sorry. If you find a fix, send me a pull request.
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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), converted using [util-say](https://github.com/maandree/util-say).
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Conversion
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----------
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Convert the old quote format with
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```
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for line in $(cat ponyquotes/ponies|grep +); do n=${line%%+*}; for a in $(sed s/+/\\n/g<<<${line#*+}); do ln -s quotes/${n}.quotes quotes/${a}.quotes; done; done
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```
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Afterwards, clean up the broken symlinks with ```find -L quotes -type l -delete```
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