Ascii art easy one line install#

To install aewan use the following command: sudo apt install aewanĪnd then use it like this: aecat hello 3. Notice the use of letters in the screenshot below.

To display any text in pretty ASCII format, you need the aecat command. I am not going to discuss the editor part here. It has two tools: aewan, an ASCII editor and aecat, for viewing the created file. It produces stand-alone cat-able ASCII art files and an easy-to-parse format for integration into terminal applications. Aewan: Display ASCII text beautifullyĪewan is a multi-layered ASCII graphics/animation editor. Install lolcat with the apt command: sudo apt install lolcat 2. It may not look useful at the moment but you’ll see its impact when the outputs of other ASCII tools are piped through lolcat. So, what does it do? It is similar to the cat command but it adds random gradient colors to its output. Still, I included it at the beginning of this article because you can combine other ASCII tools with lolcat. lolcat: Add colors to your terminalĪlright! lolcat doesn’t have anything to do with ASCII art. To keep the article concise, I have only included the installation instructions for Ubuntu. You can use your system’s package manager to install them. Most of these programs should be available in the repositories of your Linux distribution. My teammate Sreenath likes to explore such unusual CLI tools and share his findings with me. You can display predefined or random messages, play games, or run some animation in ASCII format in the Linux terminal using various command line tools. One of them is experimenting with ASCII art.

But there are many fun stuff you can do in the terminal as well. You are likely to use the terminal for serious work. Of course, it could be intimidating in the beginning but once you know the terminal better, you start loving it. Linux terminal is not as scary as you think.