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Asked: 2026-06-13T11:04:55+00:00

I have a custom motd within a bash script that prints cowsay through this

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I have a custom motd within a bash script that prints cowsay through this command,

/usr/games/fortune | cowsay -f www

I want to find out if there is a way of formatting this output such as shifting the output by a tab or a space ? Do I have to loop through the text manually formatting each line or is there a shorter/better way ?

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  1. Editorial Team

    You can use sed to prepend the output with some other text. The following command adds a tab at the beginning of each line:

    /usr/games/fortune | cowsay -f www | sed -e 's/^/\t/'
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