ASCII art
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Software
- Asciiquarium — An aquarium/sea animation in ASCII art.
- boxes — Text mode box and comment drawing filter.
- https://boxes.thomasjensen.com/ || boxesAUR, boxes-gitAUR
- FIGlet — A program for making large letters out of ordinary text.
- jp2a — A small utility for converting JPG and PNG images to ASCII.
- TOIlet — Free replacement for the FIGlet utility.
For diagrams there is https://asciiflow.com/.
Arch ASCII logos
See the original forum thread.
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Cowsay
Here are some examples of cowsay and fortune used together:
Default cow with fortune
- Combined with the program cowsay:
$ cowthink $(fortune)
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( The best cure for insomnia is to get a )
( lot of sleep. -W.C. Fields )
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- Display a potentially offensive fortune:
$ cowsay $(fortune -o)
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The ASCII images are generated by .cow text files located in /usr/share/cows, and all themes can be listed with the cowsay -l. These files can be edited to the user's liking; custom images can also be created from scratch or found on the net. The easiest way create a custom cow file is to use an existing one as a template. To test the custom file:
$ cowsay -f /path/to/file $(fortune)
Random cow with fortune
$ fortune -c | cowthink -f $(find /usr/share/cows -type f | shuf -n 1)
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Random custom cow with fortune
Complex commands can be chained to produce detailed ASCII art such as this Futurama example.
- Display a random cow with a random facial expression and wrap long lines of fortune text:
Note: The randomly selected cow is actually a toad chosen from a database with custom ASCII art
$ fortune -a | fmt -80 -s | $(shuf -n 1 -e cowsay cowthink) -$(shuf -n 1 -e b d g p s t w y) -f $(shuf -n 1 -e $(cowsay -l | tail -n +2)) -n
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Ponysay
For full 256-colored cowsay-like art use ponysay (version 3.0 has 422 ponies). The syntax is the same, meaning $ ponysay message to say something and ponysay -l for a complete list of ponies. To select a pony to display, run $ ponysay --pony x "message", where x is a pony. To create more ponies use util-say-gitAUR and store them in ~/.local/share/ponysay/ponies and ~/.local/share/ponysay/ttyponies/ for desktop and TTY, respectively.