Linux CLI: banner ( the best command ever? )

[Miner49er0]

Check out figlet.

[IcarusFlying]

ascii art w00t!

[FlawedbyDesign1]

jesus wept, you boring bastard. im going now to slash my wrists.

[seeker9969]

Nice job you are so right the banner is a fruitless command. It simply does not work on the version of linux I am using fedora something

cheerio

[maw88ify]

First open gedit text editor paste the following script: #!/bin/bash banner -w30 Linux rocks > test.txt gedit test.txt save the file as just >> runme next right click on runme select properties next the permissions tab check the box Allow executing file as program ... done now double click on the runme file select Run

[akagumby]

what does that do?

[maw88ify]

#!/bin/bash echo "Hello World!" # make 2 directories mkdir bin mkdir bin2 # move directories mv bin2 bin ls /etc > page.txt mv page.txt bin free > free.txt mv free.txt bin df -h > usedspace.txt mv usedspace.txt bin/bin2 gedit bin/page.txt gedit bin/free.txt gedit bin/bin2/usedspace.txt

[javamanV3]

This was used (in UNIX) back in the day when printers were really big, and really expensive (Band printers for example). Because of these limitations, printers were shared, like almost all hardware, between many users. A banner was printed at the beginning of each print job which allowed the operators to separate and distribute the printouts.

[Thekrajisnik]

what a funny 1 :) Most useless thing ever, just wasted 10 minutes of my time trying to figure it out... it doesnt work on my shell command. Have to get back to homework.

Good tute though

[rauron9]

I'm assuming the idea is to use this command along with a shell script, not just pass the command by itself.

[werdsup]

you can use this command with lpr to print the banner with your printer

try: banner your_message_here | lpr

[JordanN5253]

lol how cool! linux rocks!!