{"id":60289,"date":"2018-11-06T09:19:07","date_gmt":"2018-11-06T09:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/11\/06\/17-fun-linux-commands-to-run-in-the-terminal\/"},"modified":"2018-11-06T09:19:07","modified_gmt":"2018-11-06T09:19:07","slug":"17-fun-linux-commands-to-run-in-the-terminal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/11\/06\/17-fun-linux-commands-to-run-in-the-terminal\/","title":{"rendered":"17 Fun Linux Commands to Run in the Terminal"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"lcom-stacked__main\">\n<div class=\"panel-pane pane-entity-field pane-node-body\">\n<div class=\"field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field-items\">\n<div class=\"field-item even\">\n<p>The terminal is a very powerful tool, and it\u2019s probably the most interesting part in Unix. Among the plethora of useful commands and scripts you can use, some seem less practical, if not completely useless. Here are some Bash commands that are fun, and some of them are useful as well.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"nolinks\">Oneko<\/h3>\n<p>This command adds some spice to your terminal by adding a cat to your screen which will chase after your (mouse) cursor. Install it by running this script:<\/p>\n<div class=\"holsh-div nolinks\">\n<div class=\"bash\">\n<pre>\nsudo apt install oneko<\/pre>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Type\u00a0<code>oneko<\/code>\u00a0to display the cat.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"linux-fun-commands-oneko\" class=\"responsively-lazy aligncenter size-full wp-image-279262\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/17-fun-linux-commands-to-run-in-the-terminal.png\" title=\"linux-fun-commands-oneko\" \/><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"nolinks\">figlet<\/h3>\n<p>Figlet is a command for those who love to write in ASCII art. It greatly simplifies this task as it automatically transforms any given string. It comes with a bunch of fonts by default at \u201c\/usr\/share\/figlet\/fonts\/,\u201d and you can of course add your own.<\/p>\n<div class=\"holsh-div nolinks\">\n<div class=\"bash\">\n<pre>\nfiglet [-f path to the font] [string]<\/pre>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Read more at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maketecheasier.com\/fun-linux-commands\/\">MakeTechEasier<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linux.com\/popup\/nojs\" class=\"ctools-use-modal ctools-modal-subscription-modal-style element-invisible\" title=\"\">Click Here!<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The terminal is a very powerful tool, and it\u2019s probably the most interesting part in Unix. Among the plethora of useful commands and scripts you can use, some seem less practical, if not completely useless. Here are some Bash commands that are fun, and some of them are useful as well. Oneko This command adds [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":60290,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-linux-freebsd-unix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60289\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}