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while [ 1 ]; do banner 'ze missiles, zey are coming! ' | while IFS="\n" read l; do echo "$l"; sleep 0.01; done; done
2009-12-14 07:40:07
User: craigds
Functions: banner echo read sleep
8

Displays a scrolling banner which loops until you hit Ctrl-C to terminate it.

Make sure you finish your banner message with a space so it will loop nicely.

sed -r "s/\x1B\[([0-9]{1,3}((;[0-9]{1,3})*)?)?[m|K]//g
2009-11-03 00:34:06
User: vaejovis
Functions: sed
3

Removes ANSI color and end of line codes to the [{attr1};...;{attrn}m format.

chr () { echo -en "\0$(printf %x $1)"}
chr() { printf \\$(printf %o $1); }
chr () { printf \\$(($1/64*100+$1%64/8*10+$1%8)); }
2009-10-15 07:01:54
User: dennisw
Functions: printf
5

I've corrected the function. My octal conversion formula was completely wrong. Thanks to pgas at http://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashFAQ/071 for setting me straight. The new function is from pgas and is very fast.

iconv -f437 -tutf8 asciiart.nfo
2009-07-11 23:50:05
User: speaker
Functions: iconv
7

Files containing ascii art (e.g. with .nfo extension) are typically not correctly reproduced at the command line when using cat. With iconv one can easily write a wrapper to solve this:

#!/bin/bash

if [ -z "$@" ]; then echo "Usage: $(basename $0) file [file] ..."

else iconv -f437 -tutf8 "$@"; fi

exit 0
mplayer -vo caca foo.avi
2009-05-25 09:29:24
User: farwarx
-11

Permet de lire une video dans une console, meme sans interface graphique.

Interet limite, mais a connaitre au cas ou.

mplayer -vo aa <video file>