Meow

Print ASCII cats to your terminal!

This is a simple command-line tool to display cute little kitties :D

I love cats

Usage

Usage: meow [OPTIONS]

Options:
  -c, --count <COUNT>  How many cats to print [default: 1]
  -l, --literally      Are you literally this cat?
  -h, --help           Print help
  -V, --version        Print version

Packaging shenanigans

The goal of this package is to eventually be in every Linux package repository and more (who doesn't like cats?) You can see the progress here: meow-ascii cats on Repology. TL;DR current status:

• NixOS
• Debian Stable
• Ubuntu
• AUR
• Fedora
• EPEL
• Homebrew
• WinGet
• Extras
  • Gentoo
  • Alpine
  • OpenBSD
  • FreeBSD
  • openSUSE

Installation

Ubuntu / Debian / etc

Just run:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install meow

Nix / Nixos

Try the package out by running nix-shell -p meow.

If you want to install it permanently, add the following lines to your config (or adapt as necessary):

environment.systemPackages = with pkgs; [
  meow
];

Arch Linux / AUR

Just run the following to install from the AUR:

git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/meow.git
cd meow
makepkg -si

Mac OS / Homebrew

Just run

brew install pixelsergey/core/meow

Note that the Homebrew maintainers didn't let me merge my package into the main repo since it "wasn't popular enough". I think they just don't like cats.

From Cargo

To get the package directly from the Rust / Cargo archives, run:

cargo install meow-cli

The binary will then be built to some directory that will be output to your command line.

Building from source

1. Install Rust
2. Clone this repository
3. Build and run with cargo run or cargo run -- [OPTIONS]

Credits

• Cats
• The concept of meowing
• How to exit vim