Linux Commands: Cowsay and Cowthink

Like figlet, banner, toilet, we have cowsay and cowthink that generates an ASCII picture of a cow saying/thinking something provided by the user.

The only difference between these two commands is trivial, please notice the difference, here is what cow says:

helloacm@uploadbeta:~$ cowsay helloacm
 __________
< helloacm >
 ----------
        \   ^__^
         \  (oo)\_______
            (__)\       )\/\
                ||----w |
                ||     ||

and this is what cow thinks:

helloacm@uploadbeta:~$ cowthink helloacm
 __________
( helloacm )
 ----------
        o   ^__^
         o  (oo)\_______
            (__)\       )\/\
                ||----w |
                ||     ||

You can run cowthink -l or cowsay -l to get a list of supported characters:

Cow files in /usr/share/cowsay/cows:
apt beavis.zen bong bud-frogs bunny calvin cheese cock cower daemon default
dragon dragon-and-cow duck elephant elephant-in-snake eyes flaming-sheep
ghostbusters gnu head-in hellokitty kiss kitty koala kosh luke-koala
mech-and-cow meow milk moofasa moose mutilated pony pony-smaller ren sheep
skeleton snowman sodomized-sheep stegosaurus stimpy suse three-eyes turkey
turtle tux unipony unipony-smaller vader vader-koala www

You can run these two commands in the browser at this URL: https://helloacm.com/cowsay/
The API for cowsay is: https://helloacm.com/api/cowsay/
The API for cowthink is: https://helloacm.com/api/cowthink/

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