1.0.0 • Published 9 years ago

mammalia v1.0.0

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mammalia

Pick a pseudo-random mammal name from a list of all known mammals. To be specific, that is all members of the taxonomic class Mammalia. The data is sourced from Mammal Species of the World (Wilson & Reeder, 2005).

Installation

Mammalia depends on Node.js. You can install Mammalia from npm:

$ npm install -g mammalia

Or build from source:

$ git clone git@github.com:mammaldev/mammalia
$ cd mammalia
$ npm install
$ npm link

Usage

Mammalia exposes a simple command line interface and can be run with default options by simply typing mammalia.

Examples

$ mammalia
Twisted-toothed Giant Hutia

$ mammalia -w 2
Rusty Pipistrelle

$ mammalia -w 1
Pacarana

Options

OptionDescriptionDefault
-wThe maximum number of words in the name of the mammal5

Why?

Because we are called Mammal we like to use the names of various mammals for some of our side projects and code names.