ponysay — cowsay reimplemention for ponies.

Today your terminal, tomorrow the world!

Installation on GNU/Linux (or other Unix implementations)

Download or clone the project. In the terminal, cd into the ponysay directory and ./setup.py --freedom=partial install or python3 setup.py --freedom=partial install. You may need to be super user to run ./setup.py --freedom=partial install without --private, on most systems this can be achieved by running sudo ./setup.py --freedom=partial install. If you only want completely free ponies install use --freedom=strict instead of --freedom=partial. For more information we have provided you with an extensive manual in PDF.

In order to use ponysay, run:

ponysay "I am just the cutest pony!"

Or if you have a specific pony in your mind:

ponysay -f pinkie "Partay!~"

Run info ponysay, man 6 ponysay or ponysay -h for more information. A Spanish manual is available: man -L es 6 ponysay.

Arch Linux

The package is in the official repositories as community/ponysay, there is also a git version named ponysay-git in AUR.

Chakra

A git version of the package is available as ponysay-git in CCR, alongside a stable package as ponysay.

Gentoo Linux

There is a package for Gentoo, to make installation and keeping it up to date easy. You can find it in this overlay. The package is named games-misc/ponysay.

Debian GNU/Linux and Ubuntu

The DEB file can be found in those PPA:s here and here.

Pony fortune on terminal startup

This requires that you have the fortune utility installed. You can install it from your repositories (may be named fortune-mod) or just fetch the source code from here.

You can try this script or ponypipe to ponify fortunes.

Edit your ~/.bashrc and add this to the end of the file

fortune | ponysay

Now every time you open a terminal a pony should give your fortune

Pony quotes

Running ponysay --q will give you a random pony saying one it its quote from MLP:FiM, or you can specify the pony: ponysay -q pinkie. Just as with -f, -q can be used multiple time to to sepecify a set of ponies from which one will be selected randomly.

When running ponysay -l or ponysay -L the ponies which have quotes will be printed bold or bright (depending on terminal).

Ponies in TTY (Linux VT)

If you have a custom colour palette edit your ~/.bashrc and add

if [ "$TERM" = "linux" ]; then
    function ponysay
    {
        exec ponysay "$@"
        #RESET PALETTE HERE
    }
fi

Read the PDF or info manual for more information.

Installation on Microsoft™ Windows®

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Dependencies

Required runtime dependencies

coreutils: stty in coreutils used to determine size of the terminal

python>=3: written in python 3

Package building dependencies

gzip: used for compressing manuals (suppressable with ./configure --without-info-compression --without-man-compression)

texinfo: used for building info manual (suppressable with ./configure --without-info)

python>=3: the installation process is written in python 3

Run ./dependency-test.sh if things are not working for you.

FAQ

Q: The output looks like a mess in (TTY/PuTTY/other)!

A: Unfortunately we cannot make it perfect, see issue 1. But we have done a lot, read more about how to get the best the current state of the art has to offer in the manual.

Q: You are missing (my-favourite-pony)!

A: Ask and we'll add!

Q: The outpus look weird on my (xfce4-terminal/mate-terminal/xterm) whit this font

A: We use block for print the ponies, if the block are desalignated or you not use a real monospaced font with aligned blocks try another different and mopnospace font like 'Liberation Mono'.

Q: Which programs do you use to generate the pony files?

A: The pony files are actually mostly a bunch of selected browser ponies, converted using util-say, Other are taken from desktop ponies, and finally another are created specificaly for ponysay.

The PDF manual should answer most of your questions.