alien-say is a communicating alien, it's not quite up to standards, but it tries its best to speak the language of the humans.
alien-say is a cli written in rust.
In order to install alien-say you will need have rust installed. Once you have rust installed you can install it with rust's package manager, cargo:
cargo install alien-say
If you haven't changed your install directory, you can find it under
.cargo/bin/
To let the alien say something, you simply type alien-say and it will say some random stuff!
$ alien-say
+-------------+
| ⋷⋺⋻⋸⋺⋳⋶⋪⋳⋶ |
+-------------+
.-.
.-""`""-. |(@ @)
_/`oOoOoOoOo`\_ \ \-/
'.-=-=-=-=-=-=-.' \/ \
jgs `-=.=-.-=.=-' \ /\
^ ^ ^ _H_ \
If you want the alien to say some pre-defined words you can do this by following the alien-say command by a string of words!
$ alien-say "Hello, Earthling."
+-------------------+
| Hello, Earthling. |
+-------------------+
.-.
.-""`""-. |(@ @)
_/`oOoOoOoOo`\_ \ \-/
'.-=-=-=-=-=-=-.' \/ \
jgs `-=.=-.-=.=-' \ /\
^ ^ ^ _H_ \