#ascii #cowsay #terminal #command-line-tool #cli

app rustsay

A simple CLI tool in Rust that mimics the classic cowsay program, allowing a cow to speak your text in the terminal

9 releases

0.2.0 Aug 10, 2024
0.1.9 Aug 10, 2024

#269 in Text processing

43 downloads per month

MIT license

9KB

i've been playing around with VIM and CLI. SO one day when i was goofing with command like:

fortune | cowsay | lolcat

Why dont i use it as motivation to learn Vim ad Rust? So i did

Installation

Cargo

cargo install rustsay

rustsay "Hello World"

Brew

# Add remote Tap
brew tap space7panda/rustsay https://github.com/space7panda/rustsay
# Installation might take some time if you dont have Rust dependencies in brew
brew install rustsay

From source

git clone https://github.com/space7panda/rustsay.git

cargo install --path .

rustsay --version

Update

Cargo

cargo install rustsay --force

rustsay --version

Brew

brew upgrade rustsay

rustsay --version

ToDo list

  • make it work lol
  • add fortune feature
  • add gradient feature
  • add another characters?
  • add fucntion to add it as terminal boot command? 🤔

Speedtest cuz why not?

cowsay

time cowsay "Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book. It has survived not only five centuries, but also the leap into electronic typesetting, remaining essentially unchanged. It was popularised in the 1960s with the release of Letraset sheets containing Lorem Ipsum passages, and more recently with desktop publishing software like Aldus PageMaker including versions of Lorem Ipsum."
 _________________________________________
/ Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the \
| printing and typesetting industry.      |
| Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's     |
| standard dummy text ever since the      |
| 1500s, when an unknown printer took a   |
| galley of type and scrambled it to make |
| a type specimen book. It has survived   |
| not only five centuries, but also the   |
| leap into electronic typesetting,       |
| remaining essentially unchanged. It was |
| popularised in the 1960s with the       |
| release of Letraset sheets containing   |
| Lorem Ipsum passages, and more recently |
| with desktop publishing software like   |
| Aldus PageMaker including versions of   |
\ Lorem Ipsum.                            /
 -----------------------------------------
        \   ^__^
         \  (oo)\_______
            (__)\       )\/\
                ||----w |
                ||     ||
cowsay   0.01s user 0.00s system 83% cpu 0.015 total

rustsay

time rustsay "Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book. It has survived not only five centuries, but also the leap into electronic typesetting, remaining essentially unchanged. It was popularised in the 1960s with the release of Letraset sheets containing Lorem Ipsum passages, and more recently with desktop publishing software like Aldus PageMaker including versions of Lorem Ipsum."
 _________________________________________
/ Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of     \
| the printing and typesetting industry.  |
| Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's     |
| standard dummy text ever since the      |
| 1500s, when an unknown printer took a   |
| galley of type and scrambled it to make |
| a type specimen book. It has survived   |
| not only five centuries, but also       |
| the leap into electronic typesetting,   |
| remaining essentially unchanged. It     |
| was popularised in the 1960s with the   |
| release of Letraset sheets containing   |
| Lorem Ipsum passages, and more recently |
| with desktop publishing software like   |
| Aldus PageMaker including versions of   |
\ Lorem Ipsum.                            /
 -----------------------------------------
     \   ^__^
      \  (oo)\_______
         (__)\       )\/\
             ||----w |
             ||     ||


rustsay 0.00s user 0.00s system 64% cpu 0.003 total

cowsay 0.01s user 0.00s system 83% cpu 0.015 total

rustsay 0.00s user 0.00s system 64% cpu 0.003 total

Dependencies

~2.5–3.5MB
~54K SLoC