Here are links and follow-up notes from the ASCII Art Tips & Trick talk by Dustin Goldman, originally presented at the Creative Coding X meetup.
Dustin hopes you enjoyed the talk. If you have any questions, feel free to contact him on twitter, where he is @roosto
per the FIGlet website:
FIGlet is a program for making large letters out of ordinary text
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FIGlet can be obtained through homebrew and many other fine package distributors
cowsay makes silly cartoon captions like the below
____________
< I am a cow! >
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\ ^__^
\ (oo)\_______
(__)\ )\/\
||----w |
|| ||
cowsay can be obtained through homebrew and many other fine package distributors
N.B. If you use ansible often, you may not want to install cowsay. See Cowsay and Ansible for how cowsay interacts with ansible. And if you want to see how people really feel about this, grab your popcorn and head over to the Cowsay should not be enabled by default issue on ansible’s github.
fortune says random things; some version of it can be found via most fine package distributors
figlet -f banner3 'ohai' | sed -e 's/^/ /g' -e 's/#/:partyparrot:/g' -e 's/ /:boom:/g' | pbcopy
See also my inspiration for this: Dave Powell’s party.sh, which interactively does roughly the same.
Augment installed fortunes with some nerdy unix/bash ProTips(tm), and pipe
fortuneoutput throughcowsayorcowthinkusing a fun assortment of custom themed.cowfiles
This is a small bash thing that I made to ¿improve? your experience of running fortune | cowsay from your .bash_profile script.
I am assuming that you have already enabled remote ssh login to your Mac. If you don’t already have ssh login setup, and/or you are not using ssh login regularly, this is not for you. Allowing ssh login is definitely a a security risk, and if it’s something that if you needed or wanted, you’ll have already figured out how to get working on your own.
OK warnings aside, if you are already running sshd on your mac (the daemon that does ssh login), the below will setup a banner for you.
- Create your banner file at, say,
~/Pictures/banner.txt - As
rootcopy your banner to its logical directory:
sudo cp -i ~/Pictures/banner.txt /etc/ssh/banner.txt
(since you’re running it as root, make sure to use-i!) - Make a back up of your
sshd_configfile, in case something goes wrong:
sudo cp -i /etc/ssh/sshd_config /etc/ssh/sshd_config.bak
(again, please use-i!) - Open your
sshd_configfile, as root (we will usenanobecause it’s a fairly easy to use terminal based editor):
sudo nano /etc/ssh/sshd_config - Find the commented line for
Bannerin the config, uncomment it, and change it to be:
Banner /etc/ssh/banner.txt - Save the file, exit the editor
- For a sanity check make sure you only changed the one line in the config file:
diff /etc/ssh/sshd_config.bak /etc/ssh/sshd_config - restart the ssh daemon to load your new config with the below two commands
launchctl stop com.openssh.sshdlaunchctl start com.openssh.sshd- login via
sshto enjoy the fruits of your labor!
The cats.txt file used in the presentation is from Christopher Johnson’s ASCII Art Collection, which is quite good, though rather lacking in eagles.