Want to learn some cool things to do in your terminal? | |
Of course you do! (I mean, you are on gopher after all!) | |
Know anything I should? Send me an email at [email protected] | |
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Star Wars! | |
You probably know this one | |
$ telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl | |
This will allow you to see the whole of Star Wars Episode IV. | |
In ascii art. wonderful stuff! | |
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Weather | |
Easy enough to do, but you need finger. SDF already have this. | |
$ finger <city name>@graph.no. | |
for help, just "finger @graph.no". | |
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Termbin.com | |
Ever needed to share text from your terminal? | |
Termbin to the rescue! | |
Just redirect your output to "nc termbin.com 9999" | |
for example: | |
$ echo "Testing termbin!" | nc termbin.com 9999 | |
This will give you a nice URL you can use to share with your | |
friends. Be wary though; make sure you never push keys or passwords | |
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OpenStreetMap in your terminal | |
Ever been to lazy to open a browser to check a map? | |
Who am I kidding, of course you have! | |
Well, worry no more. | |
$ telnet mapscii\.me | |
Use arrow keys to move around, and A/Z to zoom. | |
Or use the mouse if you want to be fancy | |
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Figlet | |
Ever want to make a certain bit of text *REALLY* clear? | |
Figlet is for you! It even has lots of fonts you can see with | |
'showfigfonts' | |
$ figlet -w 60 Bit of text... | |
____ _ _ __ _ _ | |
| __ )(_) |_ ___ / _| | |_ _____ _| |_ | |
| _ \| | __| / _ \| |_ | __/ _ \ \/ / __| | |
| |_) | | |_ | (_) | _| | || __/> <| |_ _ _ _ | |
|____/|_|\__| \___/|_| \__\___/_/\_\\__(_|_|_) | |
It even has lots of fonts you can see with 'showfigfonts'. | |