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 tools for making you have a smile and in a good mood after day-long work.
You can play word games in terminals, create a beautiful ASCII picture and more.
1. sl
I didn’t have a typo here, yes, it is sl.
$ sudo apt-get install sl # Linux
$ brew install sl # MacOs
sl is a funny command, if you run it you will get a train come from right to left, the output looks like this:
2. fortune
$ sudo apt-get install fortune # Linux
$ brew install fortune # MacOs
fortune will display quotes, funny predictions, jokes or even poetry in the terminal.
You could find more details on fortune – Display random quotes
3. cowsay
$ sudo apt-get install cowsay # Linux
$ brew install cowsay # MacOs
$ cowsay hello
cowsay will display a cow with the words you inputted as arguments.
It’s funnier to combine with fortune using pipeline:
4. toilet
toilet could be used to make a beautiful ASCII picture with your inputs, you could even add color for the result.
5. oneko
oneko is my favorite one, this program will show a cat which chases your mouse cursor, have a look at this vedio.
I didn’t find out the MacOs version.
$ sudo apt-get install oneko # Linux
6. xeyes
This is an application which comes with package of x11-apps. It’s not just for fun, but also a useful utility if you have a big screen and a small cursor.
$ sudo apt-get install x11-apps # Linux
$ xeyes
7. cmatrix
cmatrix shows flying text in terminal, just like you saw in “The Maxtrix” movie!
The source code is here: abishekvashok/cmatrix
Have fun and happy coding!
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Top comments (7)
Wait, is
-F gaywhat makestoiletproduce 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 quickman cowsayshould do the trick.7 on a fullscreens terminal, looks like a good prank
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.
fortune | cowsayare my personal winners :)fun fact: cowsay is also available as a wasm package (wapm) wapm.io/package/cowsay
... wrong post comment (puts glasses on)
indeed it is!
xeyes brings me good memories!