Comments on: 20 amusing Linux commands to have fun with the terminal

By: jOsh

jOsh — Tue, 17 May 2022 20:55:49 +0000

sl was made to get people to slow down when they are working so fast they reverse the ‘ls’ command

By: Lucy

Lucy — Sat, 07 Aug 2021 21:24:09 +0000

In reply to Robert Levitt. yes and rev are builtin to the linux kernel

By: Lucy

Lucy — Sat, 07 Aug 2021 21:19:53 +0000

‘yes’ has a very useful function. If you have an annoying program that keeps throwing [Y/n] prompts at you and you don’t wanna keep pressing ‘y’, you can pipe ‘yes’ into that program (eg: yes | sudo apt update), and it will automatically agree to all those [Y/n] prompts for you.

For a [Y/n/a] prompt, you could do
yes a | commandThatHasAnAlwaysOption
so it will never ask you again, as it will automatically ‘a’ to all those [Y/n/a] prompts.

By: Harshal

Harshal — Sun, 25 Jul 2021 13:53:50 +0000

In reply to Robert Levitt. sudo apt install yes rev

By: Robert Levitt

Robert Levitt — Thu, 01 Jul 2021 22:39:30 +0000

Tried downloading yes and rev. I’m using a laptop running under MX 19.4. How do I download those two commands?

By: Diego Cabrera

Diego Cabrera — Wed, 05 May 2021 13:30:57 +0000

In reply to Softopia.

sudo apt-get install lolcat
$lolcat
(You can also use )
Example: $ pi 100000 | lolcat

By: Rich

Rich — Sat, 20 Feb 2021 13:24:10 +0000

In reply to Softopia.

You can use figlet with lolcat,

Install lolcat

Just do your figlet thing and add this to the end,

| lolcat

Example:
Figlet -f slant “hello world” | lolcat

Then it will display rainbow effect

By: bonby67

bonby67 — Mon, 01 Feb 2021 08:40:42 +0000

dinosay is awesome new alternative of cowsay: https://github.com/MatteoGuadrini/dinosay

By: Pablo Casado

Pablo Casado — Mon, 16 Nov 2020 08:43:26 +0000

Inspired by your post, this is my email signature:

fortune -s | cowsay -W 78 -f $(ls /usr/share/cowsay/cows/ | shuf -n1)

By: Vlad

Vlad — Thu, 15 Oct 2020 14:23:20 +0000

In reply to NLinux. what have you done? why did you do this?

By: Vlad

Vlad — Thu, 15 Oct 2020 14:16:06 +0000

try the command (iauefhia’). its weird

By: brian

brian — Thu, 20 Aug 2020 03:51:45 +0000

So… Did you just steal this list right from Brian Lunduke’s YouTube video?

By: Lars A G

Lars A G — Wed, 01 Jul 2020 14:59:21 +0000

I installed Midnight Commander with ‘install pkg mc’

By: Judson

Judson — Tue, 23 Jun 2020 00:25:53 +0000

In reply to Softopia. Combine it with lolcat, e.g: figlet yourtext | lolcat

By: Rusty

Rusty — Sun, 31 May 2020 02:18:15 +0000

In reply to Gino Duncan. chmod -R us Your_Base

By: ed

ed — Mon, 03 Feb 2020 20:18:59 +0000

pi 100000 | lolcat

By: fda

fda — Tue, 22 Oct 2019 09:20:54 +0000

In reply to Gino Duncan. You r funny x))

By: Scott Whitney

Scott Whitney — Mon, 29 Apr 2019 20:12:21 +0000

In reply to Valentin Hilbig. not sure is this works but you can try to type use-the-force or use_the_force and it might do the same thing.

By: Devarshi Agarwal

Devarshi Agarwal — Sun, 31 Mar 2019 08:37:33 +0000

You could also try https://attackonalgorithms.wordpress.com/2019/02/10/custom-ascii-art-and-random-one-liner-welcome-messages-on-linux-terminal-start-up/

By: Meowcat

Meowcat — Thu, 29 Nov 2018 19:40:42 +0000

In reply to NLinux. Saying to do "sudo rm -rf /*" is like sayign to delete C:\System32 from Windows, our linux installation will permanently break.