I was talking to my parents the other day and surprised myself getting pretty chocked up remembering how my dad had shown me how to program an ascii animation on his 386, and how the wonder I felt at that in many ways led me to where I am today, so many years later. These things matter.
Do you still have the animation?
It was basically (no pun intended) this, though obviously not in bash:
#!/bin/bash
legs_out=(
" "
" .'''. "
" - - "
" | C ^ "
" \ 7 "
" | | "
" / \\ "
" | \\ \\ "
" | \\ \\ "
" / | \\ \\ "
" / | \\ \\ "
" / | \\ \\ "
" / | |\\ \\ "
" \\ \\ "
" \\ "
" / \\ "
" / \\ "
" / / \\ \\ "
" / / \\ \\ "
" / / \\ \\ "
" / \ \\ \\ "
" \\ \\ \\ \\... "
" ____] [ ]"
)
legs_cross=(
" .'''. "
" - - "
" | C ^ "
" \ 7 "
" | | "
" / \\ "
" | | | "
" | | | "
" | | | "
" | | | "
" | | | "
" ( | | | "
" | | ) "
" | | | "
" | | | "
" | | | "
" | | ) "
" | | | "
" | | | "
" | | | "
" / | "
" / | | "
" \\..] / / "
)
print_man() {
local spaces=$1
local man=("${!2}")
for line in "${man[@]}"; do
printf "%*s%s\n" $spaces "" "$line"
done
}
spaces=0
state=0
while true; do
clear
if (( state % 4 $(tput cols) )); then
spaces=0
fi
sleep 0.1
done