 Okay, in the last video we were looking at VT100 files, which were basically text files with, you know, escape characters in them that would play animations in your shell. Now there are actually programs that do ASCII art animations, and I showed this one years ago. It's in your repository, so on a Debian system you can use apt, aptitude, aptget, whatever package range you prefer, but you would install CMatrix. And I already have it installed, but you would go through the process of installing that, and you also want PV installed, so you would actually do this if you don't already have PV installed, which I think is installed on most systems. So and the way it works is to type in CMatrix, you run it and you get a matrix shell, or yeah, matrix display in your shell. Control C to clear out of that. So let's say we wanted to save that to a text file. I can run CMatrix and pipe it into a file, I'll just call it CM or redirect it into a file, and when you hit enter you're not going to see anything because it's all being put into that text file. We'll let it run for a little bit and then I'll hit control C to stop it. Now if we were to try to cat that out, yeah, it worked. It just worked really fast. Just like our other videos, it happened so fast that we didn't see it. So let's go ahead and do what we did last time, which is PV-Q-L and give it a blood rate, we'll say 9600 and we'll hit enter. And now it's slowing down that animation so we should be able to see it. You might have black or a few seconds there and then it starts up. And there you go. I hit control C. Now you notice I don't have a cursor anymore because it kind of messed up my shell. Again, you can type reset and it will fix that and I now have a cursor again. If we wanted to, we can make it go a little bit faster by upping the blood rate. So there we go. So I mean that's just a fun little trick. Now you might be asking why you would want to do this and that's a very good question. Again, I'm going to control C and again I've lost my cursor so I'm going to reset my shell. And I can come up with some ideas on why you might want to do this. Maybe you want to write a shell script that displays that for a bit but you don't want them to have to have C matrix installed. You just want to have it built into your system. Well you can put that text into your shell script or as a separate file and you don't have to worry about having the binary file of C matrix installed on the system. Or maybe you're on a system that C matrix isn't necessarily readily available for. It's not in the package manager or maybe you're working on a router that you're logging into and for some reason you want to just be cool and have the matrix shell in there. And so you don't want to have to recompile C matrix or find a copy for that processor. Well if this is a plain text file which means any system we're on you can cat it out. I'm not mistaken, let me see something real quick. I could be wrong, yeah I don't see it here. Disregard what I was about to say. Of course you would still need PV installed, I just accidentally locked my machine. You still need PV installed but I don't think that's what I really thought was part of Busybox. Maybe my copy of Busybox doesn't have it installed, I could have sworn PV was part of Busybox. But anyway, there's really no real reason to do this. Record it to a file other than the fact that you can and again the most common is maybe you want to throw that into a shell script as an intro to your shell script or something like that without actually having the binary installed on a system because once it's in a shell script it's all plain text, the architecture of the system does not matter so there's nothing to recompile. I do thank you for watching. I hope you enjoyed this silly little tutorial. Please visit my website filmsbychrist.com, that's Chris Decay, there's a link in the description. There you can search through all my videos or support me over at patreon.com. I do appreciate any financial support that you can give if you enjoy my videos. Even if you give a dollar a month that would be awesome. If you can't support financially please share, like, subscribe and comment. Definitely share. Again I'm trying to get my views up and I hope that you have a great day.