Below we will see why Linux can stand out by simply allowing any system customization. We will use the lolcat package to turn the commands displayed on the terminal screen into a rainbow. Yes commands will appear in rainbow colors, in slow movement.
Interesting; Let's see how it works:
As I mentioned earlier, we will use the LOLcat application. The cat commands come with enhanced color and Rainbow-like colors.
The LΟLcat application is available on almost all modern Linux distributions by default in their repositories. Alternatively, you can install the latter version of LΟLcat from the git repository.
For Lolcat to work you will need the latest version of RUBY. Below are the commands to install on the distribution you are using:
(Proceed as follows if the application does not already exist in your distribution repositories)
apt-get install ruby [για συστήματα με APT] yum install ruby [για συστήματα με Yum] dnf install ruby [για συστήματα με DNF]
When installing the ruby, confirm the version:
2. Then download and install the latest version of lolcat from the git repository with the following commands:
wget https://github.com/busyloop/lolcat/archive/master.zip unzip master.zip cd lolcat-master / bin gem install lolcat
Check the version again
Let's run LOTcat. The basic syntax for LOLcat is:
LOLcat [options] [files]
The application comes with many options that control its behavior. Below are some of the most important commands:
-a passes each line through a motion effect.
-d determines the duration (number of steps before the next line appears) of the motion effect, the default value is 12.
-s determines the speed (frame rate- number of steps per second) of the motion effect, the default value is 20.
-f allows coloring
You can find more choices here.
But let's look at the result:
Let's try the help command:
lolcat -h
Impressive;
Let's run the commands:
echo I ❤ SecNews | lolcat figlet I Love SecNews | lolcat
Let's say that the character ❤ is unicode character and to install the figlet run the following command with yum, dnf or apt:
apt-get figlet yum install Figlet dnf install figlet
