Command-line tool

cowsay

brew/cowsay

Checked 25 Oct 2026, 21:09 UTC · Listing refreshed from Homebrew, winget, npm, Scoop and cargo; npm packages checked against OSV.dev

Apjanke's fork of the classic cowsay project

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Type

Command-line tool

Install on

Windows, macOS

Last checked

25 Oct 2026, 21:09 UTC

Install it

Windows

scoop install cowsay
scoop install neo-cowsay

macOS

brew install cowsay

Print an ASCII cow saying "hello, world"

cowsay "hello, world"

Print an ASCII cow saying text from `stdin`

echo "hello, world" | cowsay

List all available art types

cowsay -l

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