{
  "name": "baresay",
  "section": 1,
  "title": "print an ASCII animal with a speech balloon",
  "synopsis": [
    "baresay [OPTION]... [MESSAGE...]"
  ],
  "description": "Like cowsay for Bare OS: wraps MESSAGE (or stdin, if none) in a speech balloon and prints it above an ASCII character read from /share/baresay/<name>.bare. Default character is bear. Full behavior is in packages/bare-os-coreutils/src/baresay.js and lib/baresay-engine.js.",
  "files": [
    "/share/baresay/*.bare — ASCII templates with $thoughts, $eyes, $L (left eye), $R (right eye), $tongue"
  ],
  "options": [
    {
      "flag": "-W COLS",
      "meaning": "Maximum width for word wrapping balloon text (default 40)."
    },
    {
      "flag": "-n",
      "meaning": "Do not wrap words; single balloon line."
    },
    {
      "flag": "-f NAME|-f PATH",
      "meaning": "Character: NAME loads /share/baresay/NAME.bare; PATH loads that file."
    },
    {
      "flag": "--file NAME|PATH",
      "meaning": "Same as -f."
    },
    {
      "flag": "-l",
      "meaning": "List names (basename of each .bare under /share/baresay)."
    },
    {
      "flag": "-e XX",
      "meaning": "Two characters for eyes (default oo)."
    },
    {
      "flag": "-T C",
      "meaning": "One character for tongue."
    },
    {
      "flag": "-b -d -g -p -s -t -w -y",
      "meaning": "Preset moods (Borg, dead, greedy, paranoid, stoned, tired, wired, youthful)."
    },
    {
      "flag": "--think",
      "meaning": "Thought balloon with parentheses instead of angle brackets."
    },
    {
      "flag": "-th",
      "meaning": "Same as --think."
    },
    {
      "flag": "--rainbow",
      "meaning": "ANSI color cycling on balloon lines."
    },
    {
      "flag": "-R",
      "meaning": "Pick a random .bare from /share/baresay."
    },
    {
      "flag": "--random",
      "meaning": "Same as -R."
    },
    {
      "flag": "-h",
      "meaning": "Print usage and exit."
    },
    {
      "flag": "--help",
      "meaning": "Same as -h."
    }
  ],
  "keywords": [
    "baresay",
    "cowsay",
    "ascii",
    "bare-os",
    "coreutils"
  ],
  "examples": [
    {
      "caption": "Speech from arguments",
      "code": "baresay Hello from Bare OS"
    },
    {
      "caption": "Pipe text",
      "code": "echo hi | baresay"
    },
    {
      "caption": "Another character",
      "code": "baresay -f pear Pear-powered"
    },
    {
      "caption": "Thought bubble",
      "code": "baresay --think Quiet thoughts"
    }
  ]
}