STASCII

Linux ASCII commands

In Linux operating system, the terminal is a powerful tool for Linux users to work on. Linux is all about work for the folks, and there is no fun to use it; you'll get surprised to see tons of funny ASCII commands, in this section we're looking for the most popular ones in ASCII art.

CMatrix

cmatrix

CMatrix is based on the screensaver from The Matrix website. It shows text flying in and out in a terminal like as seen in "The Matrix" movie. It can scroll lines all at the same rate or asynchronously and at a user-defined speed.

How to use :

1. install it.

sudo apt install cmatrix

2. just type the name to run.

cmatrix

Cowsay

Cowsay is a program that generates ASCII art pictures of a cow with a message. It can also generate pictures using pre-made images of other animals, such as Tux the Penguin. There is also a related program called cowthink, with cows with thought bubbles rather than speech bubbles. .cow files for cowsay exist which are able to produce different variants of "cows", with different kinds of "eyes", and so forth. Install it with this command :

sudo apt install cowsay

How to use :

just type cowsay followed by a text, and you can add some options such as -f and then the name of .cow file, Learn more.

cowsay Welcom to SATSCII 
 ____________________
< Welcome to STASCII >
 --------------------
        \   ^__^
         \  (oo)\_______
            (__)\       )\/\
                ||----w |
                ||     ||
cowsay -f tux Hello from Linux 
 __________________
< Hello from Linux >
 ------------------
   \
    \
        .--.
       |o_o |
       |:_/ |
      //   \ \
     (|     | )
    /'\_   _/`\
    \___)=(___/

you can do the same thing with cowthink.

echo "ASCII art" | cowthink -f elephant 
 ___________
( ASCII art )
 -----------
 o     /\  ___  /\
  o   // \/   \/ \\
     ((    O O    ))
      \\ /     \ //
       \/  | |  \/
        |  | |  |
        |  | |  |
        |   o   |
        | |   | |
        |m|   |m|

Globe

globe

a Customizable ASCII globe generator library. that can Render an ASCII globe in your terminal based on C++ code. If you want to install it and use it, check the source in this link : github.com/adamsky/globe

aafire

aafire

The “aafire” is a terminal-based little fun element that gives you mind relaxation when it burns the whole terminal while working.When you fed-up while working with Linux commands, install “aafire” on the system and render the fire in your terminal window.

sudo apt-get install libaa-bin

then render it by just typing the name.

aafire