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Working with Linux ??? Quick Hacks for the Command Line

You're reading from Working with Linux ??? Quick Hacks for the Command Line Command line power like you've never seen

Product type Paperback

Published in May 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781787129184

Length 222 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Linux

Concepts

Networking

Authors (2):

Bogdan Vaida

Petru I»ôfan

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Table of Contents (8) Chapters

Preface

1. Introduction FREE CHAPTER

2. Productive Shells – Reinvent the way you work

3. Vim kung fu

4. CLI – The Hidden Recipe

5. Developers' Treasure

6. Terminal Art

Index

Chapter 6. Terminal Art

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. Even though the command line seems boring to a lot of people, it can become great fun. It all comes down to your imagination. Terminals can be stylish and can give a good impression, especially the ones we see in the movies. Colors, ASCII art, and animations can make our terminal come alive. So, here comes some terminal art!

In this chapter, we will cover the following:

Working with some Linux commands to have fun with

Ever heard of fortune cookies? Do you want to have them without getting fat? Just run the following apt command to install the utilities that we will be using in this chapter:

sudo apt install fortune cowsay cmatrix

Terminal Art

Then run this command:

fortune

Terminal Art

When running this command, you get fortunes, quotes, and jokes, in a random order. If we combine the command with cowsay, we will get the same fortunes, delivered with an image of a cow:

fortune | cowsay

Terminal Art

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Authors (2)

I»ôfan

I»ôfan

Petru Ifan is a full-stack developer, Linux evangelist, open source lover, andcloud pioneer. Petru has worked all his engineering life in Linux, and has tried allthe major distributions out there. He specializes not only in software development,but in the whole software engineering stack, focusing on tools and workflows thatenhance developer productivity and enjoyment. An early adopter of technology, he uses passion and best practices to deliversoftware products, mainly for the Web and the mobile world, working with clientsbig and small. He is really enthusiastic about finding the most efficient and elegantsolutions for all problems.

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Bogdan Vaida

Bogdan Vaida

Bogdan Vaida is a seasoned private investor who has backed over 300 crypto startups. He is a founding member of Iron Capital, a VC company incorporated in Dubai. Eight years ago, he founded his own company and has managed teams at various stages of development. He is an advisor for several blockchain projects, including Gravvity, Blockchain Valley Virtual, Gentlemen Capital, Bountie, MetaVill and Umay. For fun and profit he trades daily, having his own trading course and programming his own trading indicators and strategies.

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