Funny Linux Commands That You MIGHT Not Know!

Funny Linux Commands That You MIGHT Not Know!

If you think you know all the funny Linux commands from around the web, well here are some that are funnier and less explored.

If you have already heard about the cowsay command on Linux, we are assuming you know about the other funny Linux commands mentioned in our Top 8 Funny Linux Commands article. So if that write up was not fun enough to you, we are sure this one will definitely bring some amusement to your command terminal.

These commands are basically no complete command in themselves but are extensions of the cowsay command. But trust us they are fun! If you are not aware of the cowsay command, type cowsay followed by hi and it will appear like this:



Cowsay is a command that will display a cow with a speech bubble containing the given text. For instance cowsay". But that is something that we all know. What we are sharing today are the parameters that cowsay accepts and provides funny, cute and amusing outputs. Try out and have fun!

-b - "Borg mode" uses "==" in place of "oo" for the cow′s eyes



-d - "Dead" uses "XX" plus a descending "U" to represent an extruded tongue



-g - "Greedy" uses "$$"



-p - "Paranoid" uses "@@"



-s - "Stoned" uses "**" to represent bloodshot eyes, plus a descending "U" to represent an extruded tongue



-t - "Tired" uses "--"



-w - "Wired" uses "OO"



-y - "Youthful" uses ".." to represent smaller eyes



-e - (eye_string) Manually specifies the cow′s eye-type. For example, "cowsay -e o-" will make a cow with "o-" eyes.



-T - (tongue_string) Manually specifies the cow′s tongue shape. For instance, "cowsay -T a(w)" will make the tongue out of two parentheses.



-l - Lists the names of available cow-files in the COWPATH directory.



-f cowfile - Specifies a ".cow" file containing alternative ASCII art. This parameter accepts both absolute file-paths and those relative to the environment variable COWPATH.

With these parameters, Linux users can make some interesting displays. For example, "cowsay -f elephant uh" will replace the cow with elephant. Users can make their own cow files and use them by specifying the name with the "-f" parameter.



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