Re: cowsay help

On Wed, 24 Sep 2008 17:11:13 -0700
John Hubbard <ender8282@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

When using cowsay, how do I control when the cow divides my message onto
multiple lines? I tried
$ cowsay line1/
>line2
>
but I got:
____________
< line1line2 >
------------
\ ^__^
\ (oo)\_______
(__)\ )\/\
||----w |
|| ||

How can I get the cow to say my motd when I log in via ssh?

printf "Hello there \n I'm a cow... \n" | cowsay

/ Hello there \
| |
\ I'm a cow... /
---------------
\ ^__^
\ (oo)\_______
(__)\ )\/\
||----w |
|| ||

Peter

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