Lolcat
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Lolcat is a funny terminal colorizer written in Ruby.
Installation
Emerge
Install games-misc/lolcat:
root #emerge --ask games-misc/lolcatTweaking
It is funny to add this to your ~/.bashrc, if you wish to lolcat all the time:
FILE
~/.bashrcalias cat="lolcat"
Warning
Adding this toother peoples your .bashrc however might cause unexpected side effects, use with caution!
Adding this to
Usage
There are many usecases, here are just a few ways to take advantage of it:
user $find /usr/portage -type f -exec lolcat '{}' \;
user $find /var/cache/man -type f -exec lolcat '{}' \;
user $fortune | cowsay | lolcat
user $tcpdump | lolcat
user $emerge --info | lolcat
user $cat /dev/urandom | base64 -w $COLUMNS | lolcat
Note
All emerge commands can be lolcatted. Use wisely.
All emerge commands can be lolcatted. Use wisely.
You can have a nice fortune every time you open a shell with a random cow:
FILE
~/.bashrccow_mode[1]="-b"
cow_mode[2]="-d"
cow_mode[3]="" # default
cow_mode[4]="-g"
cow_mode[5]="-p"
cow_mode[6]="-s"
cow_mode[7]="-t"
cow_mode[8]="-w"
cow_mode[9]="-y"
rng=$(( $RANDOM % 9 + 1))
IFS=' '
cowfiles=(`cowsay -l | sed 1d | paste -sd " "`)
num_files=${#cowfiles[*]}
cowfile=${cowfiles[$((RANDOM % num_files))]}
fortune | cowsay -W 35 ${cow_mode[$rng]} -f $cowfile | lolcat