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Commands by lkjoel

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files=(/usr/share/cowsay/cows/*); cowsay -f `echo ${files[$((RANDOM%${#files}))]}` `fortune` | toilet -F gay -f term
2011-02-20 05:55:33
User: lkjoel
Tags: ascii art fortune cowsay toilet ascii art
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Cowsay Random Cow saying your fortune with colorized output

This command will tell you your fortune, with a nice Ascii Art animal, and it is colorized

You need cowsay, toilet and fortune installed.

On Ubuntu this is:

sudo apt-get install cowsay toilet fortune

Debian:

aptitude install cowsay toilet fortune
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files=(/usr/share/cowsay/cows/*); cowsay -f `echo ${files[$((RANDOM%${#files}))]}` <TEXT>
2011-02-20 05:43:01
User: lkjoel
Tags: random cowsay cowfile
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Cowsay Random Cowfile

This will show a random cow with cowsay.

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yes 'clear;printf "`date`\n" | figlet -f starwars | boxes;sleep 1' | sh
2011-02-16 03:58:19
User: lkjoel
Functions: printf sleep yes
Tags: figlet console clock revised beautiful
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Console clock -- Beautiful 2

This is a different version from my original command: Console clock -- Beautiful (http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/7902/console-clock-beautiful )

This one uses Boxes and Figlet.

To install the dependencies on Ubuntu, type in:

sudo apt-get install boxes figlet

To install the dependencies on Debian, type in:

aptitude install boxes figlet
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svnradd() { for i in $1/*;do if [ -e "$i" ];then if [ -d "$i" ];then svn add $i;svnradd $i;else svn add $i;fi; fi;done }
2011-02-16 03:33:57
User: lkjoel
Tags: bash svn file directory for add bash .svn sh /dev/null recursive if
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SVN Recursive Directory/File Adder

This will recursively add files/directories in SVN.

Usage:

svnradd yourfile

or

svnradd yourdirectory

then:

svn commit

Notice: It might not work properly, and not all files could get added.

Since there is a limit on characters, I couldn't add failure/success notices.

If you want failure/success notices, download Terminal Enhancements (http://tenhancements.tk/ )

It is included on Base Features

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yes 'clear;printf "\n\n`date`\n" | figlet -f starwars;sleep 1' | sh
2011-02-16 03:05:52
User: lkjoel
Functions: printf sleep yes
Tags: figlet console clock revised beautiful
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Console clock -- Beautiful

This will show a console clock with Figlet.

This is with the Star Wars font.

Change the -f option to anything else.

Notice: You need Figlet installed for this to work.

To install Figlet on Ubuntu, type in:

sudo apt-get install figlet

To install Figlet on Debian, type in:

aptitude install figlet
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yes 'clear;printf "\n\n\n\n\t\t\t`date`\n";sleep 1' | sh
2011-02-16 02:57:16
User: lkjoel
Functions: printf sleep yes
Tags: console clock revised
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Console clock -- Revised

This command will automatically clear the old clock time, and show the new clock time.

It will also slightly format it.

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while [ 1 ]; do clear; echo 'YOUR TEXT HERE' | figlet -f banner -t | while IFS="\n" read l; do echo "$l"; sleep 0.01; done; done
2011-02-13 18:52:39
User: lkjoel
Functions: banner echo read sleep
Tags: bash read ascii loop banner
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bash screensaver revised

Change YOUR TEXT HERE to the text you want.

On figlet -f banner, you can change it to any figlet font you have installed.

One variant for Star Wars fans could be this:

while [ 1 ]; do clear; echo 'Star Wars' | figlet -f starwars -t | while IFS="\n" read l; do echo "$l"; sleep 0.01; done; done

NOTICE: You need to install figlet.

On Ubuntu, this command is:

sudo apt-get install figlet

On Debian, this command is:

aptitude install figlet
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