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botsay - a utility for outputting text with an ASCII art robot

botsay [-i ID] [-p] [-c] [-h] [--version] [MESSAGE]

botsay generates an ASCII art robot with a speech bubble containing a message. If no message is provided as an argument, it reads from standard input. If no ID is provided, a random bot ID is used.

Specify a custom bot ID to use for generating the ASCII art.
Print the bot's ID after generating the ASCII art.
Enable rainbow mode (truecolor).
Show a help message and exit.
Print the version and exit.

botsay 'Hello, world!'

echo Hello from stdin | botsay -c

botsay was written by Alexander F. Rødseth <xyproto@archlinux.org>

2 May 2026 botsay