Installing FIGlet In Linux
\nInstall a FIGlet utility, to be able to convert text to ASCII Art from the Linux command line.<\/p>\n
In Ubuntu, Debian, Linux Mint etc.
\n$ sudo apt-get install figlet<\/p>\n
In CentOS, RHEL, Fedora etc.
\n$ yum install figlet<\/p>\n
Generate ASCII Text Banners<\/p>\n
o use FIGlet with its default settings, simply type :<\/p>\n
$ figlet “Shell Hacks”
\n ____ _ _ _ _ _ _
\n\/ ___|| |__ ___| | | | | | | __ _ ___| | _____
\n\\___ \\| ‘_ \\ \/ _ \\ | | | |_| |\/ _` |\/ __| |\/ \/ __|
\n ___) | | | | __\/ | | | _ | (_| | (__| <\\__ \\\n|____\/|_| |_|\\___|_|_| |_| |_|\\__,_|\\___|_|\\_\\___\/\nTo change the font, use the -f option, for example :\n\n$ figlet -f digital \"Shell Hacks\"\n+-+-+-+-+-+ +-+-+-+-+-+\n|S|h|e|l|l| |H|a|c|k|s|\n+-+-+-+-+-+ +-+-+-+-+-+\nUse the -c option if you would prefer centered output :\n\n$ figlet -c \"Shell Hacks\"\nList FIGlet Fonts\nPrint a list of available FIGlet fonts :\n$ showfigfonts\n\nYou can also download and use additional FIGlet fonts, for example :\n\n$ wget http:\/\/www.figlet.org\/fonts\/univers.flf\n$ figlet -f univers.flf \"lol\"\n \n88 88 \n88 88 \n88 88 \n88 ,adPPYba, 88 \n88 a8\" \"8a 88 \n88 8b d8 88 \n88 \"8a, ,a8\" 88 \n88 `\"YbbdP\"' 88 \nCreate ASCII Art From Text\nIf you would like to display the output of a command using FIGlet, simply pipe the command into FIGlet :\n\n$ date +%r | figlet -f bubble\n _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ \n \/ \\ \/ \\ \/ \\ \/ \\ \/ \\ \/ \\ \/ \\ \/ \\ \/ \\ \/ \\ \n( 0 | 4 | : | 5 | 1 | : | 4 | 9 ) ( P | M )\n \\_\/ \\_\/ \\_\/ \\_\/ \\_\/ \\_\/ \\_\/ \\_\/ \\_\/ \\_\/ \n\n$ echo \"WTF?\" | figlet -f banner\n# # ####### ####### ##### \n# # # # # # # \n# # # # # # \n# # # # ##### ### \n# # # # # # \n# # # # # \n ## ## # # # \nIf FIGlet gets its input from a file, use -p option :\n\n$ cat myfile\nShell Hacks\n$ figlet -p < myfile\n ____ _ _ _ _ _ _ \n\/ ___|| |__ ___| | | | | | | __ _ ___| | _____ \n\\___ \\| '_ \\ \/ _ \\ | | | |_| |\/ _` |\/ __| |\/ \/ __|\n ___) | | | | __\/ | | | _ | (_| | (__| <\\__ \\\n|____\/|_| |_|\\___|_|_| |_| |_|\\__,_|\\___|_|\\_\\___\/\nNow have fun, creating your own ASCII text banners from the Linux terminal.\n\nMore information can be found on FIGlet official site.\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Installing FIGlet In Linux Install a FIGlet utility, to be able to convert text to ASCII Art from the Linux command line.<\/p>\n
In Ubuntu, Debian, Linux Mint etc. $ sudo apt-get install figlet<\/p>\n
In CentOS, RHEL, Fedora etc. $ yum install figlet<\/p>\n
Generate ASCII Text Banners<\/p>\n
o use FIGlet with its default settings, simply type […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6062"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6062"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6063,"href":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6062\/revisions\/6063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}