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/lolcat
Tweaking
It is funny to add this to your ~/.bashrc, if you wish to lolcat all the time:
FILE
~/.bashrc
alias 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 $COLUMNS | lolcat
Note
All emerge commands can be lolcatted. Use wisely.
All emerge commands can be lolcatted. Use wisely.
You can have a nice fortune every time you open a shell with a random cow:
FILE
~/.bashrc
cow_mode[1]="-b" cow_mode[2]="-d" cow_mode[3]="" # default cow_mode[4]="-g" cow_mode[5]="-p" cow_mode[6]="-s" cow_mode[7]="-t" cow_mode[8]="-w" cow_mode[9]="-y" rng=$(( $RANDOM % 9 + 1)) IFS=' ' cowfiles=(`cowsay -l | sed 1d | paste -sd " "`) num_files=${#cowfiles[*]} cowfile=${cowfiles[$((RANDOM % num_files))]} fortune | cowsay -W 35 ${cow_mode[$rng]} -f $cowfile | lolcat