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Re: Fun at the Unix Terminal

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Post by Philomath » Thu, Apr 06, 2017, 7:27 AM UTC

That's nice! I'll try to show them to my young brother (13). He's never used the Terminal before and he might find some fun in this. Thank you!

Re: Fun at the Unix Terminal

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Post by mrkgnao » Thu, Apr 06, 2017, 7:43 AM UTC

sengork wrote: post #6

aafire(1) is fun too, especially in colour with fixed term font. Likewise aaxine(1) which renders videos in ASCII art.

asciiquarium and pipes, too.

Re: Fun at the Unix Terminal

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Post by d33 » Thu, Apr 06, 2017, 8:00 AM UTC

Surprised nobody commented on bb yet. This thing is really impressive - and I thought that mplayer -vo caca is jaw-dropping!

Re: Fun at the Unix Terminal

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Post by fjarlq » Thu, Apr 06, 2017, 8:14 AM UTC

sguav wrote: post #10

sengork wrote: post #6

aafire(1) is fun too, especially in colour with fixed term font. Likewise aaxine(1) which renders videos in ASCII art.

With friends using VLC on their linux box and unaware of the beauty of libaa/libcaca, I'd type: vlc --vout caca videofilename.ext and then look at them being scared/curious/amazed in that order!

Hey, cool. Here's how to do that with `mpv` on macOS:

    $ brew install mpv --with-libcaca
    $ mpv --vo=caca --really-quiet videofilename.ext

Re: Fun at the Unix Terminal

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Post by petepete » Thu, Apr 06, 2017, 8:16 AM UTC

For fancy text Toilet is great too. It's like Figlet but supports colours, filters, and comes with more fonts.

https://i.stack.imgur.com/LbsmC.png

Re: Fun at the Unix Terminal

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Post by niceperson » Thu, Apr 06, 2017, 8:32 AM UTC

petepete wrote: post #15

For fancy text Toilet is great too. It's like Figlet but supports colours, filters, and comes with more fonts. https://i.stack.imgur.com/LbsmC.png

I had no clue about that!

Re: Fun at the Unix Terminal

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Post by girishso » Thu, Apr 06, 2017, 9:15 AM UTC

LeoPanthera wrote: post #2

For those of a certain age, piping figlet into your local line printer was a fun, if noisy, way to make giant banners.

It was "banner" for me!

Re: Fun at the Unix Terminal

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Post by dandermotj » Thu, Apr 06, 2017, 9:34 AM UTC

Does anyone have a place/site for browsing through new/popular utilities? I've been on Ubuntu for the last year and I love it, but reading this I just realised I don't have anywhere to browse or find things like this.

Re: Fun at the Unix Terminal

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Post by anc84 » Thu, Apr 06, 2017, 9:43 AM UTC

mrkgnao wrote: post #12

sengork wrote: post #6

aafire(1) is fun too, especially in colour with fixed term font. Likewise aaxine(1) which renders videos in ASCII art.

asciiquarium and pipes, too.

I just discovered asciiworld. It can show you a worldmap with day/night shading, geodesic lines to IPs and satellites overhead. Amazing!

Re: Fun at the Unix Terminal

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Post by agumonkey » Thu, Apr 06, 2017, 10:11 AM UTC

Had no clue bc accepted new definitions.. RTFM strikes back.