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cowsay

Print ASCII art (by default a cow) saying or thinking something. tldr-pages

GTFOBins inherit 1 documented command

How cowsay is abused

documented by GTFOBins

inherit

-f

Each abuse is GTFOBins's category and the options and words it uses; the full write-up is on GTFOBins's page for cowsay.

1 documented command

from GTFOBins, each read by CmdID

inherit unprivileged, with sudo

cowsay -f /path/to/script.pl x

Identify

The command CmdID reads trips no Sigma process-creation rule. This command is from GTFOBins, at commit acd524623f9c of 2026-05-27, under the GPL-3.0, with no warranty. Changed: Markdown is shown formatted. The source is in lolbas-gtfobins-commands.json.gz, and the full entry is on GTFOBins’s page for cowsay. CmdID reads the line that runs cowsay.

Everyday use

from tldr-pages, CC BY 4.0

Print an ASCII cow saying "hello, world"

cowsay "hello, world"Identify

Print an ASCII cow saying text from stdin

echo "hello, world" | cowsayIdentify

List all available art types

cowsay -lIdentify

None of the 3 examples CmdID reads matches GTFOBins abuse or trips a Sigma process-creation rule.

cowsay

How cowsay is abused

1 documented command

Everyday use

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