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Re: Baby Level 99: Shell Script Greeting using Cowsay and date

dummy@example.com (Awebb) — Wed, 09 May 2012 21:57:19 +0000

And every time they do, 2ct are sent to numbered account in Switzerland.

Re: Baby Level 99: Shell Script Greeting using Cowsay and date

dummy@example.com (lurka) — Wed, 09 May 2012 21:48:05 +0000

Congratulations on your first AI.

That's what people always say! D:

hah

Re: Baby Level 99: Shell Script Greeting using Cowsay and date

dummy@example.com (Awebb) — Wed, 09 May 2012 07:52:07 +0000

Congratulations on your first AI.

Re: Baby Level 99: Shell Script Greeting using Cowsay and date

dummy@example.com (machinebacon) — Wed, 09 May 2012 07:43:56 +0000

^ Morning Rho!

ls /usr/share/cowsay/cows/

Re: Baby Level 99: Shell Script Greeting using Cowsay and date

dummy@example.com (rhowaldt) — Wed, 09 May 2012 07:36:59 +0000

moo! what are the different cows?

Baby Level 99: Shell Script Greeting using Cowsay and date

dummy@example.com (lurka) — Tue, 08 May 2012 22:46:51 +0000

#!/bin/bash
COW_PATH=/usr/share/cows

files=($COW_PATH/*.cow)    
N=${#files[@]}
((N=RANDOM%N))
cow=${files[$N]}


h=`date +%H`
case $h in
    0[0-9]|1[0-1]) greeting="Good morning!"
    ;;
    1[2-9]) greeting="Good afternoon!"
    ;;
    2[0-4]) greeting="Good evening!"
    ;;
esac

cowsay -f $cow $greeting

exit 0

Tip: May need to modify COW_PATH- This was tested on Arch Linux.