KAMADHENU

An udderly absurd MOTD soothsayer for your *nix $SHELL

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Install

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/krry/Kamadhenu/main/bootstrap.sh | bash

Then follow the bouncing bytes...

Fresh out of the box,
you get a bare minimum of
275,254,848 spurts of insight
delivered one. at. a. time.

Use

All you have to do is call her name.

Kamadhenu

Who dares put words in the mouth of Kamadhenu?

Kamadhenu Do you love me?
echo ' '
Kamadhenu Could you learn to love me?

Kamadhenu may not help, but you can still ask.

Kamadhenu help

Pick a number between 1 and Ctrl-C

Kamadhenu 2021

Start each shell sesh fresh with Kamadhenu

echo Kamadhenu >> .$(basename $SHELL)rc

Oh, dear, is it Terminal?

Coming soon (maybe)

Pipe stdout to Kamadhenu (like a cat)

# echo "You ever drunk Bailey's out of a shoe?" | Kamadhenu

Dependencies

• fortune
• cowsay
• lolcat
• figlet
• and coreutils, specifically for GNU shuf which Macs don't come with.

Troubleshooting

If you encounter a hiccup, hold your breath. Anything else, check here.

No Homebrew, dog? That's otay

The dependencies are listed in the Brewfile and right nearby. If you gather those, you're most of the way there. All that's left is to copy those artisanally curated, hand-fingered cows, fonts, and fortunes into their respective homes on your machine.

Flubbed with the dismount? Failed to symlink?

The likely culprits are file permissions. Make sure you launch the bootstrap script from the safety of a locally owned, openly permissioned dir.

If nothing happens when you fire Kamadhenu into the command line, the symlink probably didn't make it into your PATH. Nobody knows your PATH like you do, so give it an echo $PATH and find your way.

Missing cows and/or figlets? Fortunes failing?

These need to be where cowsay, figlet, and fortune would look for them. Once again, you have a keen advantage in determining this.

First determine your brew --prefix.

On Macs with Intel chips we tend to use /usr/local, and for the Apple Silicon we tend to use /opt/homebrew.

• cows go in: /usr/local/share/cows
• figlets in: /usr/local/share/figlet/fonts
• fortunes => /usr/local/share/games/fortunes

Many Gratitudes

If you especially enjoy Kamadhenu, fork away, or come and play!

I began this project because I didn't know jack about shell scripting. And I still don't!

Now that it's alive, it might be fun to glitter the flock out of it.

And who doesn't need yet another MOTD, amirite?