While these are not bash commands, there are a few fun tools.

One is fortune, this displays a random quote on the console or terminal.

fortune
Many pages make a thick book, except for pocket Bibles which are on very
very thin paper.

Another is cowsay which takes an argument and prints a picture of a cow (there are options to change how it looks or to other characters)

cowsay hello
 _______
< hello >
 -------
        \   ^__^
         \  (oo)\_______
            (__)\       )\/\
                ||----w |
                ||     ||

As with other commands these can be combined

fortune | cowsay
 ________________________________________
/ I don't know half of you half as well  \
| as I should like; and I like less than |
| half of you half as well as you        |
| deserve.                               |
|                                        |
\ -- J. R. R. Tolkien                    /
 ----------------------------------------
        \   ^__^
         \  (oo)\_______
            (__)\       )\/\
                ||----w |
                ||     ||

Options

cowsay -f tux hello
 _______
< hello >
 -------
   \
    \
        .--.
       |o_o |
       |:_/ |
      //   \ \
     (|     | )
    /'\_   _/`\
    \___)=(___/

cowsay -f daemon hello
 _______
< hello >
 -------
   \         ,        ,
    \       /(        )`
     \      \ \___   / |
            /- _  `-/  '
           (/\/ \ \   /\
           / /   | `    \
           O O   ) /    |
           `-^--'`<     '
          (_.)  _  )   /
           `.___/`    /
             `-----' /
<----.     __ / __   \
<----|====O)))==) \) /====
<----'    `--' `.__,' \
             |        |
              \       /
        ______( (_  / \______
      ,'  ,-----'   |        \
      `--{__________)        \/

Chat

I am on the Devon and Cornwall Linux user group mailing list and also their matrix channel as zleap, it is better to ask there, that way others can answer too.

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