Print awesome artwork in your Linux terminal.

Print some artwork to your terminal with these cool commands. These are excellent ASCII artwork samples that could be very nice to have in your terminal. wget -qO- git.io/burger Here is the output of that one-liner. It looks awesome when printed in the terminal. wget -qO- http://git.io/coffee">git.io/coffee   wget -qO- http://git.io/ff5boss">git.io/ff5boss   wget -qO- http://git.io/nier2b">git.io/nier2b … Read more

How to print your IP address with Bash on Mac OSX in the terminal app.

This one-liner will print the current LAN IP address of a machine running Macintosh OSX. jason@. PWD: ~. -bash. 3.2.57. 10 $> ifconfig | grep "inet " | awk ‘FNR==2{print $2}’ 192.168.1.2jason@. PWD: ~. -bash. 3.2.57. 10 $> ifconfig | grep "inet " | awk ‘FNR==2{print $2}’ 192.168.1.2 This is 10.14.2 (18C54), but this command … Read more

New Tabby terminal coded as an Electron app.

The new Tabby terminal is coded as an Electron app. This is a new terminal emulator for Linux. This works very well on Arch Linux. This was supplied as a *.pacman file. To query the file before installing, use this command. ┌──[[email protected]]─[~/Downloads] └──╼ ╼ $ pacman -Qpi tabby-1.0.167-linux.pacman Name : tabby-terminal Version : 1.0.167-1 Description … Read more

How to print out all available terminal colors. And other useful Linux tricks.

How to best view all available terminal colours This one-liner will print out all available terminal colours for your chosen Linux terminal application. This is very useful for creating a colourful bash prompt and the user wishes to know which colour codes will work and look good in the terminal. for x in {0..8}; do … Read more

Some even more useful Linux commands and tricks for the Linux command-line user.

Some interesting and useful Linux shell commands Linux has some very useful and interesting commands available to the Linux desktop user to find out information about your computer system. Some of these hearken back to the days of the old Linux terminals; when you accessed your computer from a dumb terminal instead of a graphical … Read more

Interesting Linux commands to show off to your friends. These are quite cool indeed.

The toilet command prints out large text banners like the Figlet command. Here is an example. The banner is printed in colour. ┌──[[email protected]]─[~] └──╼ ╼ $ toilet –metal "Hello World."   m m ""# ""# m m ""# # # # mmm # # mmm # # # mmm m mm # mmm# #mmmm# #" … Read more

How to have a retro looking terminal on your Linux desktop.

To get a retro terminal for Linux that looks like an Apple II using an RF adapter to connect to a TV, use this command. This uses the xscreensaver hacks to provide a nice alternative to the boring mate terminal and Xterm. Install /usr/lib/xscreensaver/apple2 -text -fast -program /bin/bash/usr/lib/xscreensaver/apple2 -text -fast -program /bin/bash This is what … Read more

How to print out bash colors and see how many are available on your chosen terminal.

A color terminal on Linux can print a wide variety of colors. But how many colors can it print? The colortest utility can show this. Install it like this. ┌──[[email protected]]─[~/Documents] └──╼ ╼ $ sudo apt-get install colortest┌──[[email protected]]─[~/Documents] └──╼ ╼ $ sudo apt-get install colortest Then run it to get a display table for 16-color terminal … Read more

How to use local time in Ubuntu 20.04 and have the same time when rebooting into Windows.

The default installation of Ubuntu uses UTC time instead of local time to maintain the system clock. But this changes the Windows clock to UTC from local time when you reboot and this is very annoying. Run this command to fix this issue. jason@jason-desktop:~$ timedatectl set-local-rtc 1 –adjust-system-clockjason@jason-desktop:~$ timedatectl set-local-rtc 1 –adjust-system-clock This will change … Read more