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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.

lovesay crab

❖ Requirements

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

❖ Installation

Install from cargo sh cargo install lovesay

Install from source - First, install rust sh 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

sh lovesay Hello World

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

sh 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

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

lovesay also supports two other environment variables

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

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

lovesay has support for pipes as well

```sh lovesay | lolcat # pipe output to lolcat

echo something | lovesay # take input from another command

echo something | lovesay | lolcat # combine the two ```

Note: lovesay uses catppuccin mocha as it's only theme for now but there are plans to add more

❖ About lovesay

This is just a silly little rust port, but 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?

0.3.0 - Use environment variables and allow more than 5 lines for a quote