1 Overview

ponysay displays an image of a My Little Pony pony saying a message provided by the user in a terminal, or a quote from the show My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic (MLP:FiM). Historically ponysay was a wrapper for cowsay, but has since version 2.1 become an independent reimplementation of cowsay.

If a message is not provided, e.g. by piping, it accepts standard input. The pony quoting the given message is printed on standard output.

ponythink is to ponysay as cowthink is to cowsay.

ponysay is generally used to decorate your terminal with a random pony, when you start the terminal. But if you know anypony how does like ponies [fat chance] you can always make screen-shots of ponysay --q executions and communication that way over e-mail.