Fortune Cat

Like the cow, but it's a cat (and has many more options). You can change the animal in a config file (to specify with -c) or with a dedicated file (-d).

Take a look here if you would like to have a cat to decor your cat command.

Requirements

Python 3.0+, necessary for a simpler unicode manipulation.

Examples

How to use

Be sure to have Python3 and to make the script executable (chmod +x ./catfortune.py)

You can use it

• With a pipe: fortune | ./catfortune.py [OPTIONS]
• With a string: ./catfortune.py [OPTIONS] "Hello"

Options

Usage: catfortune.py OPTIONS [text]

You can rename the file and/or remove the extension if you want

File Options

Drawing Options

Text Options

Other

Configuration files

Drawing file

It's the file where you can create a custom cat. Specify its path with the option -d.

• The first line must be the number of characters of the longest line of the drawing.
• The orher lines are those of the drawing. There must be OUTPUT as one of the lines: it separates the top and the bottom part of the ASCII art.

Example:

8
  ∧＿∧
 ( ･ω･)
─∪────∪─
OUTPUT
━┯━━━━┯━
 |    |
 |    |
  U  U

Config File

Specify its path with -c. It contains the same arguments as the command line options. You must specify them in a single line.
You can optionally specify a custom drawing after the first line, with the same format as the drawing file. The latter will have precedence over the ASCII art in the config file.

Example:

-tl ┌ -tph 3 -tpv 5 -l |
8
  ∧＿∧
 ( -.-)
─∪────∪─
OUTPUT
━┯━━━━┯━
 |    |
 |    |
  U  U