cowsay-files vs sl

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cowsay-files		sl
	Project
5	Mentions	25
316	Stars	2,831
-	Growth	-
0.0	Activity	0.0
over 2 years ago	Latest Commit	5 days ago
JavaScript	Language	C
-	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 or later

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

cowsay-files

Posts with mentions or reviews of cowsay-files. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-24.

Just learned today that in 1998, RedHat had a redneck language option (swipe for more images)
3 projects | /r/linuxmemes | 24 Mar 2023

Nice. I recently discovered these additional cowsay-files
what do you guys think I could add to more transify my arch VM?
3 projects | /r/transprogrammer | 8 Mar 2023

git clone https://github.com/paulkaefer/cowsay-files
The new and improved error messages in Python 3.10 are a game-changer.
2 projects | /r/ProgrammerHumor | 8 Nov 2021

From u/Who_GNU 's comment: https://github.com/paulkaefer/cowsay-files/blob/main/cows/clippy.cow
list of all Cows!
1 project | /r/linux | 24 Oct 2021

Someone also made a program to make images into cowsay files https://github.com/paulkaefer/cowsay-files

sl

Posts with mentions or reviews of sl. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-02-02.

Sapling – A VCS from Meta
3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 2 Feb 2024

Alas, sl is a command name already well taken. https://github.com/mtoyoda/sl
Show HN: Paclear – A Fun Twist on the 'Clear' Command with Pac-Man Animation
3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 24 Oct 2023
Error message of the week (from nmap)
1 project | /r/sysadmin | 23 Jun 2023

Install SL, it wont improve either, but it will make you smirk a few times per day.
Just learned today that in 1998, RedHat had a redneck language option (swipe for more images)
3 projects | /r/linuxmemes | 24 Mar 2023

My favorite "funny commands" are probably sl(1) (potentially annoying) and this ehm... "magnificent app" (potentially useful)
The amount of times I have accidentally done this...
23 projects | /r/ProgrammerHumor | 16 Feb 2023
Does this count?
1 project | /r/shittyprogramming | 20 Jan 2023
If you're asked to imagine a moving locomotive in your mind; What direction is the train traveling?
1 project | /r/AskReddit | 15 Sep 2022
SL(1): Cure your bad habit of mistyping
1 project | /r/patient_hackernews | 12 Jul 2022

1 project | /r/hackernews | 12 Jul 2022
SL (Steam Locomotive)
3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 11 Jul 2022

What are some alternatives?

When comparing cowsay-files and sl you can also consider the following projects:

fortune - Quips I've assembled for fortune, cowsay, etc.

lolcat - Rainbows and unicorns!

Old-Hangul-Input-Method - Javascript-based IME for typing archaic Korean Hangul letters (e.g. ㅸ, ㅿ, ㅵ) easily

udiskie - Automounter for removable media

cross-platform-terminal-characters - All the characters that work on most terminals

lc - A post-modern, "multi-dimensional", configurable, abbreviating, extensible ls/file lister in Nim

out-of-character - remove invisible unicode characters

inxi - inxi is a full featured CLI system information tool. It is available in most Linux distribution repositories, and does its best to support the BSDs.

figures - Unicode symbols with fallbacks for older terminals

thefuck - Magnificent app which corrects your previous console command.

weird-json - the JS/Node.JS library for encoding complex and unconventional data structures. Support for BigInts, TypedArrays, null, undefined, and Symbol. Multiple flavors available. [Moved to: https://github.com/crisdosyago/WeirdJSON]

suicide-linux - @qntm's Suicide Linux, now available on Docker!