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Tag: piping

why doesn’t watch work when piping the output of fortune into cowsay

cowsay is a silly linux tool for displaying a cow saying given text in the terminal. fortune is a silly linux too for displaying a “random” quote in the terminal. Both of these commands can be repeatedly ran in the terminal using watch e.g. Additionally these two commands can be combined so the cow says “random” quotes. By piping the

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