ASCII art
Software
- ascii-rain — Comfy rain for your console written in C with Ncurses.
- Asciiquarium — An aquarium/sea animation in ASCII art.
- Banner — Print large banners to ASCII terminals.
- bash-pipes — An animated pipes terminal screensaver.
- boxes — Text mode box and comment drawing filter.
- cbonsai — A bonsai tree generator, written in C using ncurses.
- catimg — Print images in a terminal with 256 colors support.
- cmatrix — Animation that plays in terminal based on the text from "The Matrix".
- TOIlet — Free replacement for the FIGlet utility.
- tty-clock — A digital clock in ncurses.
For diagrams there is https://asciiflow.com/.
Arch ASCII logos
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Cowsay
Here are some examples of and fortune used together:
Default cow with fortune
- Combined with the program :
$ cowthink $(fortune)
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( The best cure for insomnia is to get a )
( lot of sleep. -W.C. Fields )
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- Display a potentially offensive fortune:
$ cowsay $(fortune -o)
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< Chastity is its own punishment. >
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The ASCII images are generated by text files located in , and all themes can be listed with the . These files can be edited to the user's liking; custom images can also be created from scratch or found on the net. The easiest way create a custom cow file is to use an existing one as a template. To test the custom file:
$ cowsay -f /path/to/file $(fortune)
Random cow with fortune
$ fortune -c | cowthink -f $(find /usr/share/cows -type f | shuf -n 1)
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Scowleton
Random custom cow with fortune
Complex commands can be chained to produce detailed ASCII art such as this Futurama example.
- Display a random cow with a random facial expression and wrap long lines of fortune text:
$ fortune -a | fmt -80 -s | $(shuf -n 1 -e cowsay cowthink) -$(shuf -n 1 -e b d g p s t w y) -f $(shuf -n 1 -e $(cowsay -l | tail -n +2)) -n
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Ponysay
For full 256-colored cowsay-like art use (version 3.0 has 422 ponies). The syntax is the same, meaning $ ponysay message to say something and for a complete list of ponies. To select a pony to display, run $ ponysay --pony x "message", where is a pony. To create more ponies use and store them in and for desktop and TTY, respectively.