lovesay

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❖ Information

lovesay.rs is a port of lovesay in rust. It is a simple rust program that displays a quote from a loved one based on the day of the month or a quote passed in through the cli arguments.

❖ Requirements

Note: These requirements only apply if using you're using lovesay to print a different quote for each day of the month.

• A quotes file stored in ~/.config/lovesay/
• Each quote must be on a new line, see the example quotes file in .example/quotes
• (optional) A partner to write you 31 lines full of love, one for each day of the month

❖ Installation

Shell

curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -LsSf https://github.com/dotzenith/lovesay.rs/releases/latest/download/lovesay-installer.sh | sh

Brew

brew tap dotzenith/tap
brew install lovesay

Powershell

irm https://github.com/dotzenith/lovesay.rs/releases/latest/download/lovesay-installer.ps1 | iex

Cargo

cargo install lovesay

Binaries

Pre-Compiled binaries for linux, mac, and windows are available in Releases

Source

• First, install rust

git clone https://github.com/dotzenith/lovesay.rs.git
cd lovesay.rs
cargo build --release
./target/release/lovesay

❖ Usage

lovesay can be used in a similar fashion to cowsay

lovesay Hello World

if there's a quotes file in ~/.config/lovesay/, lovesay can be used without any arguments

lovesay

if you'd like to use a quotes stored somewhere other than the path above, the LOVESAY_PATH env variable can be used as such

export LOVESAY_PATH="~/path/to/file"

Colorschemes

lovesay uses your terminal's colorscheme by default, but other colorschemes can be set using an env variable

export LOVESAY_COLORSCHEME=nord # uses catppuccin mocha by default if this is left blank or malformed

The available colorschemes are as follows:

• catppuccin latte
• catppuccin frappe
• catppuccin macchiato
• catppuccin mocha
• dracula
• nord
• gruvbox dark
• gruvbox light
• onedark
• tokyonight
• ayu
• palenight
• gogh
• biscuit dark
• biscuit light

lovesay also supports two other environment variables

export LOVESAY_NO_NERD=1        # Set if your terminal does not use a nerd font (can be set to anything, lovesay just checks for existence)

export LOVESAY_MAX_WIDTH=80     # Override the width lovesay will use to wrap a quote

lovesay has support for pipes as well

lovesay | lolcat                    # pipe output to lolcat

echo something | lovesay            # take input from another command

echo something | lovesay | lolcat   # combine the two

❖ About lovesay

While this rust port has grown up to be the main version, the reasoning for the original is below:

I wrote lovesay because I got tired of seeing neofetch or pfetch every time I opened my terminal. I wanted something more personal.

Seeing words full of love from my partner is a lot better than any other command I could possibly run. It makes my terminal feel cozy, welcoming, and as is the case with most things my partner touches, it makes my terminal feel like home.

I hope that someone else finds a use for this little script as well. Love is a wonderful thing, and we could all use a little bit more of it in our lives (especially arch linux users)

❖ What's New?

1.0.0 - Stabilize printing with terminal colors by default