Cowsay doesn't say anything

macos terminal github gem

You have to pipe the text you want to have "said by the cow" 

echo "hello world" | cowsay

Another cool thing to do is mixing cowsay and fortune 

fortune | cowsay

You can also type
cowsay "The text you want to say"

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