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I use this very often with my kids (3yo twins). It's fun for them to see animals, dragons and other things popping up on the white screen. I usually ask them wh
by vander_elst 3y ago
I use this very often with my kids (3yo twins). It's fun for them to see animals, dragons and other things popping up on the white screen. I usually ask them what they what they want see, prepare it and then let them press on enter to display it. Simpler things e.g. 'gnu' or 'fox' they can type themselves.
- tarcar 3y agoIf they like ponies then check out ponysay, just an alternative with some cute colorful ponies in the terminal!
- 082349872349872 3y agonext project: use sed (or your favourite shell/scripting language) as a filter in front of ponysay, to rewrite "anybody"->"anypony", "somebody"->"somepony", etc.
- koolba 3y agoColorful ponies? Blasphemy! The Unix way is to do one thing and do it well: fortune | cowsay | lolcat