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Created May 8, 2015 10:33
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  1. xoner created this gist May 8, 2015.
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    #!/bin/bash

    # before running
    # apt-get install cowsay fortune

    COW_FILES_DIR="/usr/share/cowsay/cows/"
    COW_FILE_ORDER=$(( (RANDOM %51) + 2))
    RDM_COW_FILE=$(ls -l $COW_FILES_DIR | tail -n +$COW_FILE_ORDER | head -n 1 | awk '{print $9}')
    RDM_COW_PATH="$COW_FILES_DIR$RDM_COW_FILE"

    fortune | cowsay -f $RDM_COW_PATH