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7 Shell Commands Which Make You Have A Smile

Nic on January 10, 2020

Friday now! Let's have some fun. Shell command is a powerful tool for improving developer’s productivity, there are also some really funny command...
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Daan Wilmer • Edited

Wait, is -F gay what makes toilet produce a rainbow? That seems kinda... insensitive (not to say "crappy").

Also: there are different animals to choose from in cowsay. I don't remember the exact option, but a quick man cowsay should do the trick.

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Jingles (Hong Jing) • Edited

7 on a fullscreens terminal, looks like a good prank

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Kristina Gocheva

Once I had to take a shot for a local newspaper and they said "It would be perfect if you could be sitting in front of a computer so as we see what you code". Since I had only my work laptop with me and it is insecure to show code on it, I just opened as you say a fullscreen cmatrix :) :D I don't think the newspaper guys really understood the joke.

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Sven Kanoldt

fortune | cowsay are my personal winners :)

fun fact: cowsay is also available as a wasm package (wapm) wapm.io/package/cowsay

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Adam Crockett 🌀 • Edited

... wrong post comment (puts glasses on)

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Frupreneur

indeed it is!

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Elena.NET

xeyes brings me good memories!