Installation

Weitere Installationsbefehle

macOS

Homebrewverifiziert · 100%

brew install ponysay

local Homebrew formula metadata

Linux

Nixverifiziert · 92%

nix profile install nixpkgs#ponysay

nixpkgs package indexes · pkgs/by-name/po/ponysay/package.nix · Quelle: api.github.com

Arch Linux pacmanverifiziert · 92%

sudo pacman -S ponysay

Arch Linux sync databases · ponysay · Quelle: geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com

Überblick

Paketzusammenfassung

Cowsay but with ponies

Projektlinks

Befehle und Aliase

ponysay
ponysay-tool
ponythink

Verlauf

Projektgeschichte und Nutzung

ponysay prints colored terminal ponies with speech or thought balloons, accepting a message as arguments or from standard input.

Projektgeschichte

Mattias Andrée and contributors developed ponysay as a pony-themed counterpart to cowsay. The official manual is copyrighted from 2012 and describes how the early wrapper evolved into an independent cowsay reimplementation with version 2.1.

Adoptionsgeschichte

The program has been packaged by Homebrew, Nix, and Arch-oriented ecosystems, giving the pony-themed utility a life beyond source checkouts and fandom-specific installations.

Wie es verwendet wird

Users run `ponysay` with a message, pipe text into it, request character quotations, or add it to shell startup files for a random greeting. `ponythink` produces thought balloons, while `ponysay-tool` manages supporting pony data and caches.

Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

ponysay belongs to the long Unix tradition of small programs that decorate pipelines and login shells. Its appeal to package enthusiasts comes from combining cowsay-style composability with Unicode, ANSI-color handling, extensible character files, and unusually extensive documentation for a terminal joke.

Zeitleiste

2012: The official manual's copyright period begins.
Version 1.2: ponyquotes4ponysay became included by default.
Version 2.1: ponysay became an independent reimplementation rather than a cowsay wrapper.

Related projects

cowsay supplied the original speech-balloon concept and command conventions.
ponythink parallels cowsay's cowthink command.
ponyquotes4ponysay supplies character quotations and has been included by default since version 1.2.

Quellen

Sicherheitslage

Risikostufe: grün

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

Risikoklassifikator

grün Risiko · niedrig Konfidenz · appliance

Warum

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals

Signale

metadata:no-higher-risk-signals

Installationsverhalten

In den Formelmetadaten ist kein Homebrew-Post-install-Hook erfasst.
Homebrew-Bottle-Metadaten sind für 6 Plattformziele verfügbar.
Installiert mit 2 Laufzeitabhängigkeiten.
Build-Metadaten listen 2 Build-Abhängigkeiten.

Empfohlene Prüfung

Prüfe vor unbeaufsichtigter Agent-Nutzung, ob das Tool Klartext-Credentials liest, Remote-Zustand schreibt, Artefakte veröffentlicht oder Plugins ausführt.

local files

Configuration and credential file locations

These source-backed paths show where this package keeps local settings or durable credentials. Automic Vault can use them as review targets for secret scanning, migration, and command approval.

Configuration files

Config paths the tool may read or write during local use.

Unix: ${XDG_CONFIG_HOME}/ponysay/ponysayrc~/.config/ponysay/ponysayrc~/.ponysayrc/etc/ponysayrc

Executables

Installierte Executables

Befehl	Art	Sichtbarkeit
`ponysay`	cli	globales Executable
`ponysay-tool`	cli	globales Executable
`ponythink`	cli	globales Executable

Aktualität

Version und Aktualität

Diese Signale trennen das Alter der Seitengenerierung, Aktivität des Paketmanagers und Upstream-Release-Vergleich. Versionsrückstand wird nur gemeldet, wenn eine Evidenz-URL und vergleichbare Versionen vorhanden sind.

Seite generiert2026-09-19

Manager-Version3.0.3

Manager aktualisiert2026-09-13

lokale DatenOK

Upstreamaktuell

neueste erkannte Version3.0.3

https://github.com/erkin/ponysay

OKEs wurden keine Aktualitätswarnungen generiert.

Installationsmetadaten

Paketmetadaten

Paketschlüssel	brew:ponysay
Version	3.0.3
Paketmanager	Homebrew
Paketmanager-Seite	https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/ponysay
Homepage	https://github.com/erkin/ponysay/
Repository	https://github.com/erkin/ponysay
Upstream-Dokumentation	https://github.com/erkin/ponysay/
Lizenz	GPL-3.0-or-later
Quellarchiv	https://github.com/erkin/ponysay/archive/refs/tags/3.0.3.tar.gz
Zuletzt aktualisiert	2026-09-13T12:04:28Z
Pulse	updated
Abhängigkeiten	coreutils, python@3.14
Build-Abhängigkeiten	gzip, texinfo
Bottle	verfügbar (auf arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, sonoma, x86_64_linux)
Homebrew post-install	nicht definiert
Dienst	keiner deklariert

Registry-Fakten

Details aus der Quelldatenbank

Source Database	Homebrew formula API
Tap	homebrew/core
Full Name	ponysay
Version Scheme	0
Revision	7
Head Version	HEAD
Bottle Stable Root URL	https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core
Deprecated	no
Disabled	no
Keg Only	no
URL Keys	head stable

Source-Datenbank-Treffer

Andere Paketmanager-Einträge

Treffer stammen aus externen Paketmanager-Indizes und bleiben von lokalen Automic-Vault-Paketlinks getrennt.

Nix95%

ponysay

nix profile install nixpkgs#ponysay

normalized package name match
Abgeglichen nach: Ponysay

nixpkgs package indexes · api.github.com · nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/po/ponysay/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1

pacman95%

ponysay 3.0.3-7

cowsay reimplemention for ponies

https://github.com/erkin/ponysay

sudo pacman -S ponysay

License: GPL-3.0-only
Architecture: any
2 Abhängigkeiten
normalized package name match
Abgeglichen nach: Ponysay

Arch Linux sync databases · geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com · Arch Linux sync databases: ponysay from https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/extra/os/x86_64/extra.db.tar.gz

Paketgraph

Links stammen aus dem lokalen Paketbeziehungsgraph, Ergänzungen, Abhängigkeitskanten, Ecosystem-Matches und Paket-Hub-Mitgliedschaft.

Quellspur

Aus Repository-Daten generiert

Diese Seite wird von av-web aus dem privaten Paket-SQLite-Artefakt bereitgestellt, das scripts/generate-pkg-sqlite.py erstellt.

Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub.

combined/ponysay.yml

Verwendete Quellen

Geiger risk classifier
cross-ecosystem install command graph
curated configuration and credential file locations
curated package history
external package-manager database matches
package relationship graph
package version freshness
package-page enrichment
pkg.so package database
pkgdb category and tag curation

ponysay mit Homebrew, Nix, pacman installieren