cowsay help

[John Hubbard]

Peter Garrett wrote:
> On Wed, 24 Sep 2008 17:11:13 -0700
> John Hubbard <ender8282 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>   
>> When using cowsay, how do I control when the cow divides my message onto 
>> multiple lines?  I tried
>> $ cowsay line1/
>>  >line2
>>  >
>> but I got:
>>  ____________
>> < line1line2 >
>>  ------------
>>         \   ^__^
>>          \  (oo)\_______
>>             (__)\       )\/\
>>                 ||----w |
>>                 ||     ||
>>
>> How can I get the cow to say my motd when I log in via ssh? 
>>     
>
>  printf "Hello there \n I'm a cow... \n" | cowsay 
>
> / Hello there   \
> |                     |
> \ I'm a cow...  /
>  ---------------
>         \   ^__^
>          \  (oo)\_______
>             (__)\       )\/\
>                 ||----w |
>                 ||     ||
>
> Peter
>
>   
Thanks.  That was perfect.  Now, how do I get the the cow to say my motd?

-- 
-john

To be or not to be, that is the question
                2b || !2b
(0b10)*(0b1100010) || !(0b10)*(0b1100010)
        0b11000100 || !0b11000100
        0b11000100 || 0b00111011
               0b11111111
        255, that is the answer.