Like cowsay, but with ASCII robots generated with go-asciibot, which is based on asciibots, which is in turn based on 1k-asciibots which is inspired by the Robot Factory game.
Output of botsay 'Build complete':
.===. .----------------.
//o o\\ | Build complete |
\\_v_// '----------------'
.==|>o<|==:=L
'=c|___|
.'._.'.
|_| |_|
Output of fortune | botsay:
Y__ .--------------------------------------------.
_/- -\_ | If you think last Tuesday was a drag, |
\_O_/ --<| wait till you see what happens tomorrow! |
.==|>o<|==:=L '--------------------------------------------'
'=c|___|
( )
__) (__
Output of botsay -- $(botsay;botsay;botsay):
_._._ .--------------------------------------------.
-)O O(- | )_( .--. |- -| '--' |_^_| o==|ooo|==o |
\_0_/ --<| |___| // \\ _\\ //_ .===./` .--. /.- -. |
.==|>o<|==:=L | \ '--' "\_n_/" ,"|+ |". _\|+__|/_ ( ) |
'=c|___| | __) (__ _._._ .--. -)ooo(- '--' \_=_/ |
]| |[ | (m9\:::/\ /___\6 . /___\ . . ..:::::::. . |
[_| |_] '--------------------------------------------'
Output of date --iso-8601 | botsay -:
.---. .-------------.
} - - { | 2019-06-03 |
\_O_/ '-------------'
.-._/___\_.-.
; \___/ ;
|_|_|
/_|_\
Use -c if you wish to colorize the output text with a synthwave/rainbow-like effect:
With Go 1.17 or later:
go install github.com/xyproto/botsay@latest
-c- color the output with rainbow-like colors-i- specify a custom bot ID to use for generating the ASCII art.-p- print the bot's ID after generating the ASCII art.--version- output the current version--help- output brief help
- For longer pieces of text, there may be formatting issues.
- Version: 1.4.1
- License: BSD-3
- Author: Alexander F. Rødseth <xyproto@archlinux.org>