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8 fun Linux utilities

ispmanager.com on July 11, 2024

We've put together a few fun Linux utilities, try them out for yourself. Read on and you’ll get greeted by a cow in your console, you’ll become Ne...
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Igor Gubaidullin

The “yes” command helps you to loop an automated response until you terminate the command. This command will print the exact same thing indefinitely. If you want to produce huge amounts of junk text fast, then this command will work like a charm.
Just try something like:
# yes "Hello World!"

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And there is also a command pi - it will show the first 50 digits of the number π after the decimal point =)

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Marek Wywiał

similar for ls -> sl is git -> gti

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Ben Sinclair

The cow from the apt command is reproducible with the cowsay command.

Figlet has alternatives - I use toilet these days, but banner is simpler and probably already installed on older systems.

lolcat takes anything you pipe through it - toilet for example - and makes it use pretty colours.

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Ernane Ferreira

I was thrilled to discover that you can watch Star Wars in the terminal with just one command using Telnet:

telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl
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You’ll need Telnet installed on your system, but it’s definitely worth it! lol


                    8888888888  888    88888
                   88     88   88 88   88  88
                    8888  88  88   88  88888
                       88 88 888888888 88   88
                88888888  88 88     88 88    888888

                88  88  88   888    88888    888888
                88  88  88  88 88   88  88  88
                88 8888 88 88   88  88888    8888
                 888  888 888888888 88   88     88
                  88  88  88     88 88    8888888

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Syed Mehdi

This has to be the coolest things I've ever seen on a terminal! Thanks!

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Jeffrey Davis

You mention figlet, but not toilet. How can you do toilet --gay Happy Pride ?

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Lots of teams not included here - everyone has their favorites =)

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Cédric

useless therefore essential
:D

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Joe

If you still use sudo, try adding the line
Defaults insults
near the top of /etc/sudoers (using visudo).

It's quite versatile. ;)
(It won't break anything except perhaps a bad mood.)

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Karthik Sakthivel

Very interesting... 💯👏

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DevOps Pass AI

Where is bb and libcaca?! devopspass-ai.com/post/friday-devo...

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weiqipeng

that's cool

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ispmanager.com

glad you like it

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Utsav Tayde

haha... cmatrix is something though!

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Shlomi Fish

Re fortune: some codevelopers-and-I maintain an enhanced version of fortune-mod here: github.com/shlomif/fortune-mod . There is also a version where the source code was converted to rust-lang, and some content was filtered: github.com/cafkafk/fortune-kind . The debian and ubuntu versions are thus old-and-outofdate

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Rash Edmund Jr

does fortune ever run out of quotes or does it always pull them from online

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Илья Малышев

If you like cmaprix try Hollywood hacking terminal