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How do I get ascii art in Linux terminal?
Show the colorful TEXT ART in Linux Terminal
- Install figlet and lolcat : sudo apt install figlet lolcat.
- Install git : sudo apt install git.
- Copy all the font files from figlet-fonts directory to /usr/share/figlet/ : sudo cp figlet-fonts/* /usr/share/figlet/
- For editing the .bashrc file, we need a text editor.
How do I start ascii art?
ASCII-Art
- Step 1: Choose a Picture. Choose any image from the internet or from your desktop.
- Step 2: Copy the Picture Into Word. Open a new Word-document and paste the picture into it.
- Step 3: Set the Image Properties.
- Step 4: Set the Font and Begin to ‘paint’
- Step 5: Finish.
How to save ASCII art in a file?
Copy your ASCII art and go to the home directory. Create a file , paste your ASCII art inside the file, and save it. Open a file .bashrc from the home directory. Add the following on the bottom line of the file and save it.
In this article, we will show how to create your own appealing ASCII text banners from plain text, using two command-line utilities called FIGlet and TOIlet.
How to show ASCII art at the top of the terminal?
You can add interesting ASCII arts on your terminal without leaving your terminal. cowsay has some of the coolest ASCII arts and piping fortune outputs into cowsay can take this to another level. Let’s see how this is done, open your terminal and type: cowsay I am in a good mooooo-d. cowsay -f dragon Who dared to wake me up?
How to make ASCII characters look like images?
The secret to these image like characters is to use an image converter to ASCII characters. There are lots of free tools in the wild like toilet or figlet but I personally use jp2a. You can also use this site for generating text to ASCII instead of image to ASCII.