Turtle tux unipony unipony-smaller vader vader-koala www Skeleton snowman sodomized-sheep stegosaurus stimpy suse three-eyes turkey Mech-and-cow meow milk moofasa moose mutilated pony pony-smaller ren sheep Ghostbusters gnu head-in hellokitty kiss kitty koala kosh luke-koala Sample Output Cow files in /usr/share/cowsay/cows:Īpt beavis.zen bong bud-frogs bunny calvin cheese cock cower daemon defaultĭragon dragon-and-cow duck elephant elephant-in-snake eyes flaming-sheep cowsay is a configurable thinking and/or speaking cow, which supports a lot of other animals as well.Īfter install, print the list of all the animals in cowsay as: # cowsay -l Read a man page (say man ls) in rainbow of colors as: # man ls | lolcatĩ. In the above example duration count is 500.Ĩ. Here the option -a is for Animation and -d is for duration. Animate a text in rainbow of colours, as: $ echo I ❤ Tecmint | lolcat -a -d 500
Note: Not to mention that ❤ is an unicode character and to install figlet you have to yum and apt to get the required packages as: # apt-get figletħ. We can pipeline the output of figlet with lolcat to make the output colorful as: # echo I ❤ Tecmint | lolcat
Figlet is a utility which displays large characters made up of ordinary screen characters. Use lolcat to display codes of a script file as: # lolcat test.shĦ. Ps Command Output Date Output Calendar Outputĥ. Next, pipeline lolcat with commads say ps, date and cal as: # ps | lolcat Before starting usage of lolcat, make sure to know the available options and help using following command. Once lolcat is installed, you can check the version.
Next download and install the most recent version of lolcat from the git repository using following commands. Once ruby package has been installed, make sure to verify the version of ruby installed. Lolcat is a ruby gem hence it is essential to have latest version of RUBY installed on your system. Alternatively you can download and install latest version of lolcat from git repository. Lolcat utility is available in the repository of lots of Linux distributions, but the available version bit older.
Lolcat is primarily used for rainbow coloring of text in Linux Terminal. Lolcat is an utility for Linux, BSD and OSX which concatenates like similar to cat command and adds rainbow coloring to it. Lolcat Command to Output Rainbow of Colors for Terminal What is lolcat? Here in this article, I will be discussing about a small utility called “ lolcat” – Which produce rainbow of colors in terminal.
20 Funny Commands of Linux or Linux is Fun in Terminal.For those who believe that Linux Command Line is boring and there isn’t any fun, then you’re wrong here are the articles on Linux, that shows how funny and naughty is Linux.