Banner (Unix)
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- The correct title of this article is banner. The initial letter is shown capitalized due to technical restrictions.
The banner program displays a large ASCII art version of input text. It is commonly included in Unix and Unix-like operating systems. There are two common varieties: one, which prints text horizontally for display to a terminal, and another which prints text in much larger letters for output to a line printer.
A related, and more flexible, program is figlet, which can display text in different fonts and orientations.
[edit] Example output
From the terminal-oriented banner program:
$ banner Hello! # # ### # # ###### # # #### ### # # # # # # # ### ####### ##### # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # ### # # ###### ###### ###### #### ###
One letter from the printer-oriented banner program in Mac OS X:
$ banner -w80 "a"
#####
#########
############### ###
################ ######
################## ########
##### ##### #########
#### #### ## ###
### #### ##
### ### ##
### ### ###
#### ### ####
#############################
##############################
##############################
############################
###########################
###
#
#
[edit] See also
| Unix command line programs (more) | |||
| File and file system management: | cat | cd | chmod | chown | chgrp | cp | du | df | file | fsck | ln | ls | lsof | mkdir | more | mount | mv | pwd | rm | rmdir | split | touch | tree | ||
| Process management: | anacron | at | chroot | crontab | kill | killall | nice | pgrep | pidof | pkill | ps | sleep | screen | time | timex | top | wait | ||
| User Management/Environment: | env | finger | id | locale | mesg | passwd | su | sudo | uname | uptime | w | wall | who | whoami | write | ||
| Text processing: | awk | cut | diff | ex | head | iconv | join | less | more | nkf | paste | sed | sort | tail | tr | uniq | wc | xargs | ||
| Shell programming: | echo | expr | printf | unset | Printing: | lp |
| Communications: inetd | netstat | ping | rlogin | traceroute |
Searching: find | grep | strings |
Miscellaneous: banner | bc | cal | man | size | yes |
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