Funny Things for Kids in Terminal

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Posted 17 June 2015 - 09:47 PM

Hey all. I'm new here and kind of new to Linux as well but I hear people talking a lot about not wanting to stick with or not wanting to try [insert Linux distro here] because they hate working at the command line. For those people, I say bah humbug! Control, efficiency, and functionality aside, it can be pretty fun. So I thought it would be great to mention a few fun terminal commands to get things going. Do you have any others?

figlet!!!

sudo apt-get install figlet  figlet (insert text here)            

This is similar to cowsay...

sudo apt-get install cowsay  cowsay (insert text here)

...which is kind of similar to but not as funny as sl (animated and includes extra options)...

sudo apt-get install sl  sl

If you wanna relive the Matrix (animated)... (press ctrl+C to stop it)

sudo apt-get install cmatrix  cmatrix

You can watch STAR WARS! (animated) ... seriously ...

telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl

And BB plays an incredible piece of film art (animated and music optional on startup)...

sudo apt-get install bb    bb

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Posted 17 June 2015 - 10:42 PM

Thanks for sharing. I will have to try figlet out.

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Posted 17 June 2015 - 10:52 PM

sudo apt-get toilet

toilet (insert text)

... also provides a similar function.

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Posted 18 June 2015 - 12:40 AM

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Posted 18 June 2015 - 12:50 AM

Excellent! Looks great in blue too.

cmatrix -C blue

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Posted 18 June 2015 - 04:51 AM

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Posted 18 June 2015 - 05:24 AM

That's a good one! Thanks shadow-warrior!

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Posted 18 June 2015 - 06:34 AM

This is a bit of a laugh and can boost your ranking in the office geek stakes . Hollywood Terminal

http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/t/562363/hollywood-terminal-16-impress-your-friends/

"When God shuts a Window, he opens a Linux." —Linus 8:7

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Posted 23 June 2015 - 05:37 PM

Secrets

There isn't much to say; Secrets is simple a bash script for making coded messages.

Features:

• Take text and encrypt it.
• Take text encrypted by Secrets and decrypt it.

Install Secrets on Debian 8.0, ElementaryOS 0.3, or CentOS 7.0:
(Secrets depends on Bash and Sed, often distros have these pre-installed, so it should work on many distros.)

1. Open your web-browser, and visit:

http://yesitooknotes.per.red/2015/06/bash-script-for-encrypting-decrypting.html

2. Copy & paste the quoted code into a blank text file, save it as "secrets.sh" (or what-ever name you want) in your user folder (or where-ever you want) .

Run Secrets:
(The file must have execution permissions. Typically it will have this by default.)
1. Open your terminal and type:

bash ~/secrets.sh

(If you used a different save-location, or filename you'll need to adjust this accordingly.)

2. You will get an empty line, type your command, either:

To encrypt:

secrets --encrypt This is some example text.

secrets --decrypt Place the encrypted text here.

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Posted 29 June 2015 - 06:27 PM

Rev

There isn't much to say; Rev is a simple tool for displaying reverse lines of a file, or standard input. The file isn't modified.

Features:

• Display reverse lines of a file
• Supports input from stdin

Install Rev (Ubuntu family & Derivatives):

sudo apt-get install util-linux

(It's probably already installed) (This will result in more than just Rev being installed, as the package is set of tools.)

Usage:

rev /folder/file

Usage (without a file):

rev <(echo "textgoeshere")

or

echo "textgoeshere" | rev

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