# how to get rid of ascii art (horse or cow) in output

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-to-get-rid-of-ascii-art-horse-or-cow-in-output/13830>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Created:** [November 2, 2013, 6:30am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-to-get-rid-of-ascii-art-horse-or-cow-in-output/13830 "2013-11-02T06:30:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![Mario\_Gutierrez](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Mario\_Gutierrez](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Mario_Gutierrez)\
**Post date:** [November 2, 2013, 6:30am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-to-get-rid-of-ascii-art-horse-or-cow-in-output/13830/1 "2013-11-02T06:30:16Z")

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As cute as the ascii art is, it takes up too much vertical space on 80x25 terminal. Is there a way to disable the ascii art in the output?

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**Author:** ![Walid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ea5d25/32.png) [@Walid](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Walid)\
**Post date:** [November 2, 2013, 3:02pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-to-get-rid-of-ascii-art-horse-or-cow-in-output/13830/2 "2013-11-02T15:02:19Z")

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remove the cowsay package from your installation.

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**Author:** ![Michael\_DeHaan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c4cdca/32.png) [@Michael\_DeHaan](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Michael_DeHaan)\
**Post date:** [November 2, 2013, 3:03pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-to-get-rid-of-ascii-art-horse-or-cow-in-output/13830/3 "2013-11-02T15:03:56Z")

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Hi Mario,

Because it is now Moovember, it may be a federal crime to disable the cow in your neck of the woods, so I would recommend udderly that you reconsider such a moove.

However if you decide to skirt the law, you can configure this in ansible.cfg, export ANSIBLE\_NOCOWS=1, or just uninstall cowsay.

However, all are udderly unthinkable to me, and will leave you sad in the long run.

I’m not familiar with horsesay being supported in the output, I believe they speak morse.

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**Author:** ![Mario\_Gutierrez](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Mario\_Gutierrez](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Mario_Gutierrez)\
**Post date:** [November 2, 2013, 4:18pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-to-get-rid-of-ascii-art-horse-or-cow-in-output/13830/4 "2013-11-02T16:18:23Z")

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Moo ha ha 🙂 ty

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**Author:** ![Brian\_Coca1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Brian\_Coca1](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Brian_Coca1)\
**Post date:** [November 5, 2013, 8:31pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-to-get-rid-of-ascii-art-horse-or-cow-in-output/13830/5 "2013-11-05T20:31:06Z")

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this will get rid of horse, cow and any extra space:

export ANSIBLE\_COW\_SELECTION=dragon