Commands tagged figlet (5)

  • Display a cool clock on your terminal

    This command displays a clock on your terminal which updates the time every second. Press Ctrl-C to exit. A couple of variants: A little bit bigger text: watch -t -n1 "date +%T|figlet -f big" You can try other figlet fonts, too. Big sideways characters: watch -n 1 -t '/usr/games/banner -w 30 $(date +%M:%S)' This requires a particular version of banner and a 40-line terminal or you can adjust the width ("30" here). Show Sample Output


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    watch -t -n1 "date +%T|figlet"
    dennisw · 2009-06-21 01:02:37 39
  • Make anything more awesome

    Pipe any command through figlet to make the output more awesome. Example: ls | figlet Show Sample Output


    25
    command | figlet
    isaacs · 2009-05-03 21:20:46 16
  • Big Countdown Clock in seconds

    Requires figlet. Other than that, this should be portable enough across all the Bourne-compatible shells (sh, bash, ksh, zsh, etc). Produces a massive number using figlet that counts down the number of seconds for any given minute interval. For example, here's a 4-minute timer: i=$((4*60)); while [ $i -gt 0 ]; do clear; echo $i | figlet; sleep 1; i=$(($i-1)); done; And a 1-minute timer: i=$((1*60)); while [ $i -gt 0 ]; do clear; echo $i | figlet; sleep 1; i=$(($i-1)); done; Show Sample Output


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    i=$((15*60)); while [ $i -gt 0 ]; do clear; echo $i | figlet; sleep 1; i=$(($i-1)); done;
    atoponce · 2010-06-22 17:49:36 5
  • Show demo of toilet fonts

    Demos figlet/toilet fonts in a configurable dir. Show Sample Output


    0
    for i in ${TOILET_FONT_PATH:=/usr/share/figlet}/*.{t,f}lf; do j=${i##*/}; toilet -d "${i%/*}" -f "$j" "${j%.*}"; done
    trevorj · 2011-12-27 00:49:42 3
  • figlet


    -6
    figlet -f roman message
    ekinertac · 2013-04-23 02:25:39 12

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