meowcat

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Copyright © Tim K/RoverAMD 2019 <[email protected]>

What is this?

As you’ve probably guessed already, this is a replacement for the cat command-line tool, but all of the file output is meowified, just like in cowsay, but with cats, not cows.

Why did I even make this?

Because cats are cute…​

Installation (Linux and macOS)

Needs Tcl 8.4 or newer to operate and nothing else. On Ubuntu, install Tcl with sudo apt-get install tclsh -y.

$ sudo curl -o /usr/local/bin/meowcat http://meow.roveramd.com/meowcat.tcl
$ sudo chmod 755 /usr/local/bin/meowcat

If you prefer meowcat over regular cat, create an alias to meowcat from cat:

$ alias cat=meowcat

Usage

meowcat <additional flags> <files>

Available flags:

• -u - draws a happy cat with an UwU face.

• -h<rows> - height of the cat’s body in stdout rows. Default value is 6.

• -f<offset> - offset from the left. Default value is 5.

You can specify - as the input filename to read from stdin.

Examples:

$ meowcat -h4 -f2 /etc/mandriva-release

     ______________________
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    | OpenMandriva Lx rele |
    | ease 2014.0 (Phospho |
    | orus) for x86_64     |
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$ printf '%s' "I've just imagined that I found a huge fish for dinner." | meowcat -u -

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       | that I found a huge  |
       | fish for dinner.     |
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License

0BSD