Fun

There are lots of fun little utilities you can use from the command line, here is a short list:

• cowsay: Have a little cow say something in ASCII art.
• ponysay: Have a my little pony say something in colorful ASCII art.
• sl: A train that moves across your terminal.
• cmatrix: The matrix.
• fortune: A random fortune cookie type fortune.
• figlet: Render interesting ASCII banner text.
• ansiweather: weather report on the terminal.
• lynx: A terminal based web browser.
• motd: the message of the day.

Local Scripts and things

There are some local fun scripts and things:

• bblog: bashblog, a simple command line blogging utility.
• botany: A fun little plant digital tamagotchi type plant. Water it daily and visit other user's gardens.
• chat: A helper utility to get you connected to the local IRC server with weechat.

Published: 2022-11-23

Tagged: misc