Other funny uses Use cowsay prompt to enter password in sudo commands: sudo -p "$(cowsay 'If you know the password, enter it here. Or just go away:')" <command> Cowsay Sudo prompt Make cowsay as an entry to your bash config, so you are greeted every time you open the terminal. F...
ASCIIquarium Command Usage To exit ASCIIquarium and return to your regular command prompt, you can pressCtrl + Cin your terminal. ASCIIquarium is an entertaining way to add a bit of fun and creativity to your Linux terminal. It's especially enjoyable if you're a fan of aquariums or simp...
Googleris a full-featured Python-based command line tool for accessingGoogle(Web & News) andGoogle Site Searchwithin the Linux terminal. It is fast and clean with custom colors and no ads, stray URLs, or clutter included. It supports navigation of search result pages from omniprompt. In addi...
Usedmesgwhenever something's acting really funny (it could be hardware or driver issues). If you delete a file and it doesn't free up expected disk space as reported bydu, check whether the file is in use by a process:lsof | grep deleted | grep "filename-of-my-big-file" ...
" prompt when running the command against a non-device file (as opposed to mkfs.ntfs which simply bombs out with an error). They say that "the wonderful thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from", but I really wish Linux could rationalize the various mkfs command-...
Want to make things more funny? Let's combine lolcat withcowsay. This fun command allows you to create speech bubbles with cute animal characters that display a message you provide. But first, install cowsay from your default package manager if you don't already have it. To get it on Ubu...
focusing on Linux. It's organized a bit like a journey, from command-line novice to expert. Some tips are elementary, and some are fairly sophisticated or obscure. If you manage to use and recall all the items here, it's likely you know your way around a shell prompt better than anyon...
'command does not show most of the modern voices available in macOS. Most of the voices listed are quite old, funny, and, to be honest, awful. As has been mentioned before, I am using thesaycommand as a convenient example for a shell command. If you want proper speech synthesis in ...
Here’s how to add an emoji icon as the command line prompt: Open Terminal app and use your preferred command line text editor to modify the .bash_profile file: nano .bash_profile Add a new line like the following: PS1=" " Now pull down the “Edit” menu and choose “Special Charact...
special since the time format used by pslist isn't one of the formats that PowerShell/Windows natively understands. The variable $pslistobjects then contains PowerShell'ed objects from volatility's pslist. We can then sort, filter, or do perform all sorts of tricks once it has been Power...