ponysay/manuals/manpage.6

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.TH PONYSAY 6 "July 12, 2012"
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.SH NAME
ponysay \- A cowsay wrapper with ponies
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B ponysay
.RI [ options ]
[--]
.RI [ message ]
.br
.B ponythink
.RI [ options ]
[--]
.RI [ message ]
.br
.SH DESCRIPTION
.PP
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\fBponysay\fP displays an image of a pony saying some text provided by the user in a terminal.
It is a wrapper for \fIcowsay\fP. If \fImessage\fP is not provided, it accepts standard input,
word-wraps the message given at about 40 columns, and prints the pony saying the given message on standard output.
.PP
If no arguments are provided, the program only accepts standard input piped from another program, a file or
either here documents or here strings (see man bash(1) for details on here document/string.)
.PP
\fBponythink\fP is to \fIponysay\fP as \fIcowthink\fP is to \fIcowsay\fP.
.PP
For an extensive documentation run `info ponysay`.
.SH OPTIONS
A summary of options is included below.
.TP
.B \-h
Show summary of options.
.TP
.B \-v
Show version of program.
.TP
.B \-l
List pony files.
.TP
.B \-L
List pony files with alternative names inside brackets.
.TP
.B \-f \fIname\fP
Select a pony (either a file name or a pony name), you can use this options multiple times,
and one of the will be selected randomly.
.TP
.B \-q [\fIname\fP...]
By using this option, a pony will be printed with quotes from her in My Little Pony:
Friendship is Magic. The pony will be selected randomly, unless at least one pony
is added as an argument after \fI-q\fP. If one or more ponies are added after \fI-q\fP
the pony will be selected randomly from that set of ponies.
.TP
.B \-W \fIcolumn\fP
The screen column where the message should be wrapped.
.SH ENVIRONMENT
.TP
.B PONYSAY_BOTTOM
Under TTY (Linux VT), if the output is larger the the screen's height, only the beginning is
printed, leaving two blank lines. If you want the bottom to be printed rather the the beginning
you can export \fIPONYSAY_BOTTOM\fP with the value \fIyes\fP, \fIy\fP or \fI1\fP.
.TP
.B PONYSAY_SHELL_LINES
Under TTY (Linux VT), if the output is larger the the screen's height, two lines are left blank.
If you want more, or less, blank lines you can export \fIPONYSAY_SHELL_LINES\fP with the value
of how many blank lines you want. Naturally this takes effect if the output is not actually larger
than the screen.
.TP
.B PONYSAY_FULL_WIDTH
You can export \fIPONYSAY_FULL_WIDTH\fP with the value \fIyes\fP, \fIy\fP or \fI1\fP, if you
do not want the output to be truncated on the width to fit the terminal.
.TP
.B PONYSAY_TRUNCATE_HEIGHT
Export \fIPONYSAY_TRUNCATE_HEIGHT\fP with the value \fIyes\fP, \fIy\fP or \fI1\fP, if you
want to truncate the output on the height even if you are not running \fIponysay\fP under TTY.
.TP
.B PONYSAY_COWSAY
.B PONYSAY_COWTHINK
If you want to use another program than cowsay (the first cowsay found in $PATH), you need export
\fPONYSAY_COWSAY\fP with the value of the program. If, and only if, \fPONYSAY_COWSAY\fP does not 
have any value.
\fPONYSAY_COWTHINK\fP will be used instead of \fPONYSAY_COWSAY\fP if you run ponythink.
.SH BUG
Bugs can be reported in <\fBhttps://github.com/erkin/ponysay/issues\fP>.
.SH SEE ALSO
.BR cowsay (1),
.BR fortune (6).
.br
.SH AUTHOR
ponysay was written by Erkin Batu Altunbaş <erkinbatu@gmail.com>
with major contributions from Mattias Andrée, Sven-Hendrik Haase, Jan Alexander Steffens et al.
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.PP
This manual page was originally written by Louis Taylor <kragniz@gmail.com>
for the Debian GNU/Linux project (and may be used by others), and edited by
Mattias Andrée <maandree@kth.se> for the official ponysay release.
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.PP
This program is licensed under WTFPL.
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