The Art of Linux CLIs

[@MultsElMesco]

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[@ricdeh1701]

Considering that you already are in the GNU/Linux FOSS bubble, it would be cool for you to setup a Matrix server so that your fans don't need to use proprietary Discord

[@TheSensationalMr.Science]

derek taylor has compiled a list of these fun cli scripts at his repo called... dwt shell-color-scripts. just thought you would like. Hope you have a great day & Safe Travels!

[@illusionsofnothing]

THAT LAST LINE WAS UNCALLED FOR MAN :( he -o us in real time

[@chadyways8750]

"Silly programs, with no purpose." Me at work: wait a minute

[@MrSquishles]

I have had a real technical use for cowsay at work before 😔

[@theseangle]

@@MrSquishles check if `apt` works right? ;D

[@Rangell-animações]

Or 'pacman'... Or 'xbps-install'

[@Liriq]

Piping fortune into cowsay was a lightning moment. Life-changing. Especially with the stegosaurus. This is why we love computers.

[@Cyberfishofant]

now pipe that to lolcat

[@blufudgecrispyrice8528]

Yeah when I learnt how to pipe the first thing I did was pipe random shit to cowsay and espeak.

[@johnpulawski35]

milk is best lowkey

[@kitamashi]

now pipe pipe into cowsay

[@tuanphvng]

this is peak linux brain rot

[@sanetrayy]

HAHAHA

[@lostzhengli1060]

SKIBIDI OHIO ARCH WITH HYPRGYATT? im sorry

[@waralo191]

Yeah, but at least it's open source brain rot

[@zaicol850]

@@waralo191 imagine what closed source brain rot is like

[@captainuniversalart3796]

@@zaicol850 "This is how you make an automated script to remove pimples in photoshop"

[@oliearomin]

I need to add that stegosaurus with a hat saying random stuff to my cli

[@RaulChis]

how does one achieve such, I'm to stupid to find an answer online

[@Nandainthegrass]

@@RaulChis You'll have a ~/.bashrc or ~/.zshrc file depending on whether you're using a bash or zsh shell. Open this file in a text editor and add the command (example: fortune | cowsay) (I prefer adding it at the end of the file) and then save the file. You can run "source ~/.bashrc" or "source ~/.zshrc" (again depending on what you're using) to see the changes without closing and opening the terminal. Make sure fortune and cowsay are installed though.

[@oliearomin]

@@RaulChis I haven't actually done it but I'll try to update you when I do!

[@saurabhsingh7234]

​@@oliearominPlease let me know as well.

[@ghjfjhfdgh]

1. install "fortune" and "cowsay" 2. add the following to your .profile, .bashrc, .zshrc or whatever your shell parses: "fortune | cowsay -f stegosaurus" for extra rainbow action, install "lolcat" and change the command to: "fortune | cowsay -f stegosaurus | lolcat"

[@DavidCastillaGil]

Couple years ago, I developed some scripts to automate deployment of applications for an aeronautic company. It took so long that I started showing process logs, then status summary, then emulating a progress bar... at the end I had an airplane flying on the console. If the deployment worked without errors it landed, otherwise it would crash. The amount of scripting knowledge I gained from the customization was probably more than the deployment itself. Totally worth the effort. Note for my company, both the scripts and my customization were developed outside working hours, so shh.

[@berkefekeskin9172]

leetcode medium? i cant even solve some easy questions 😔

[@ashimarulovesyou]

LeetCode? I can't even cd from D:// to C://

[@groff8657]

There are more easy leetcode questions than grains of sand on earth. And some or them are NOT easy questions, but are designed to gaslight you that they are.

[@rubyciide5542]

​@@ashimarulovesyouu literally just did it poser clown

[@arsenypogosov7206]

​@@groff8657Example?

[@billybobjankens12]

@@ashimarulovesyou Windows? I can't even mouse and keyboard.

[@bojidarvladev4890]

4:44 This is the official discontinuation the project stopped receiving updates around 4-5 years ago.

[@monad_tcp]

sometimes software is just "done", yeah, I know, heresy

[@Brahvim]

@@monad_tcp It was too simple a program to need to be fixed anymore, I guess.

[@connivingkhajiit]

fastfetch is the replacement

[@guigazalu]

@@connivingkhajiit nowofetch is. Aka. hyfetch.

[@electricant55]

@@Brahvim yeah fuck the performance lol

[@justahumanwithamask4089]

So you're telling me that I can create a useless cli to get some github stars and then a job

[@jjhe3899]

is the Bhudda Bhuddist?

[@vncubed]

you are not dylan lmao

[@justahumanwithamask4089]

@@vncubed Not yet

[@Helios.vfx.]

Never thought about it that way 😂😂

[@_Guigui]

this reminded me i have a project of a command line rhythm game just laying around

[@Plorpoise]

That sounds awesome actually

[@_Guigui]

@@Plorpoise yeah, i kinda gave up on it because i ran out of motivation to make a chart editor that people that aren't me can use (though, you can look it up, it's called "shellrhythm")

[@dreamdeckup]

please share if it gets to a working state!

[@_Guigui]

@@dreamdeckup it's available! it's called shellrhythm and the client and editor are... functional

[@silvncr]

i want to see that too

[@andrwondabeat]

I’m glad you used my rice for this video! I love to see the unix ricing community is growing. Great video! ❤

[@MultsElMesco]

Thank you! I loved your rice, it was pretty good :))

[@nathanaelmoh5848]

What's a rice? This video popped up randomly. Thank you.

[@im-essi]

​@@nathanaelmoh5848 customized look, essentially. customizing the look/feel of your computer (especially when it's linux) is called "ricing", so one such setup would be "a rice". think it comes from car customization initially? but not sure about that.

[@configurine]

@@nathanaelmoh58483:55

[@richardsinclair7661]

​@@nathanaelmoh5848 TL;DR: "Rice" or "ricing" in this context means to customize your terminal or linux install to an almost-obnoxious degree. A more-detailed answer is below. Two months late, but in case anyone has the same question. "Rice" or "ricing" actually comes from the car guy world and stands for "Race Inspired Cosmetic Enhancements". Basically, it's the idea of decking out your car's appearance with things that make it *look* fast (spoilers, rims, air intake vents, etc) without it actually being fast. Form > function essentially. The word has started to be used more generally and in this context "ricing your terminal/linux install" is customizing the appearance of your install or terminal to an almost obnoxious extent.

[@Maxjoker98]

3:30 Calling it a train is offensive. It's a steam locomotive(sl).

[@0xPRIMEgs]

Linux CLI is God's chosen PC interface.

[@FrogsRghey]

3:17 is pure gold

[@leyvirose875]

Thought this might be relevant: There used to be a program that you could run on IBM mainframes in the late 60's that would print ASCII (or whatever text-encoding they used, I don't think it was ASCII) art image of a lady in her "birthday suite". I forget what it was called, but I saw a KZbin video of it being demoed at a computer museum, as part of a multi-video series.

[@1KiloDepartment]

You are probably thinking of Edith!

[@leyvirose875]

Yes, that's the one!

[@cilency]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/gqXPo3yKradop8k Found a video of the program in question

[@kokayola]

Now i need to add hitoribocchi in any possible thing i can modify in my linux distro

[@pegeeeeee]

2:00 BOCCHI THE ROCK MENTIONED

[@pegeeeeee]

4:01 AGAIN OMG

[@ArseneKichi]

bocchi sweep is real

[@pegeeeeee]

@@ArseneKichi REALLL🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@jorionedwards]

I don't have an anime girl as my wallpaper. I have *eight* anime girls as my wallpaper.

[@connivingkhajiit]

I dont have an anime girl as my wallpaper. I have an anime girl as my mousepad.

[@cirkulx]

i have the moon…

[@Krepppa253ButFake]

@@connivingkhajiit You sure it‘s *as* your mousepad and not a mousepad with it printed on…?

[@dinhero21]

@@Krepppa253ButFake yes

[@momiji_number1daughterwife]

i could have seven anime girls and one man as my wallpaper... i don't... but i could...

[@baranjan6969]

awk is a universal stereoids for every single cli program out there.

[@ToolforPychos]

The Monogatari music at 2:32! Nice!

[@marxy37dev]

the pipe sfx is what got me xD (also it's the only thing my smol brain understood of this video)

[@ros9764]

The more i delve into linux the more i find the ricing community very funny. Im one of those people that say they've changed the look of their terminal and all that means is switching the font color to orange and making the window more transparent. I've tried to change the overall look of my desktop by following tutorials and installing programs but after a while i go back to the default setting because it already looks good enough for me (yes, that includes xfce)

[@worldadmin9811]

made it to the end, congrats on 50k!

[@LaynaStambaugh]

Honestly, having a program built in '79 being made out of C is pretty impressive!

[@jjhe3899]

wait, you can have the pipes screensaver in a CLI? Definitely a must-have!

[@superguy654]

Its really cool how the term "Ricing" is in both the car community and the CS community. i love being in both

[@themirrazz]

Can confirm that 50% of the reason I clicked was Anya-chan doing her waku waku face in the thumbnail

[@ukyotachibana638]

so I had to sudo apt install sl and then I had to use sl 🤣 its really funny spending too much time customizing terminal with weird stuff lmao the pipe is not for I guess 🤣I would watch the birds flying rather than pipes great vid!!! love the editing 🔥

[@Jupiter__001_]

fastfetch is good if you want it to run every time you open your terminal. It's written in C so it's fast, hence the name.

[@cirkulx]

idk fastfetch looks kinda weird on default config and im really stupid (so i made my own fetch program that on a good system runs in about 200μs)

[@um8078]

After switching to Linux for a month and using a Windows machine this morning I can confidently declare I've lost all ability to use file manager and now is only capable of using cd and zoxide

[@trevorthedude]

The way you introduced piping has got to be used in universities. I really like the way you introduce new topics, and I think professors would learn a lot from your segues

[@milymilo]

cant believe donut.c was never mentioned 😔

[@puleroxd4116]

hey what are you using for the as a in terminal file browser/file editor in 7:30 it looks very much like something i want to use but dont have...

[@HicsterEnthusiast]

ranger, there's nnn too, harder to setup but at the same time a lot more customizable, ranger is nice and just works out of the box

[@DavidLee-jd5ot]

Instead of neofetch, cmatrix and cava Use fastfetch, unimatrix and glava

[@m_ism]

"It has colors and pipes and looks like i know what I'm doing but in reality I can't even solve a Leetcode medium problem." Oof this is the realest shit

[@gianclgar]

Subscribed for the piece of advice at the end

[@reinadorojo]

un chileno al que se le entiende. amo el tipo de humor de este canal, es raro y dificil de explicar pero me gusta y me quedo hipnótico con estos videos

[@TreeLuvBurdpu]

Fortune cookies are already shitty, and yet people read them. "Fortune" was not useless. It was an improvement on the actual fotune cookie.

[@attustheant]

You aren''t eating your terminals, are you?

[@TreeLuvBurdpu]

@@attustheant I am ingesting them.

[@Burak-ls5yd]

I love your Digimon wallpaper!

[@hamzabenslimane1074]

Man your video is a pure blessing

[@bluezhift]

My love for the CLI grows! Let's GO!!!

[@Dragoonmaster999]

To this day, we still don't know what file was the freaky sheeps

[@thatcipher]

I learned to appreciate CLI tools so much Idk as a frontend developer I shouldn't like the terminal as much as I do lmao

[@blank-mq8ef]

fortune into cowsay into lolcat is the best thing to have each time you open your terminal

[@jollux8035]

in my programming 1 course (python) we did the cowsay CLI project as a lab in our class. it was fun, the cow images were given (excluding the sheep), and also a dragon and tiger. from what i remember the cows name was heifer, but nevertheless the project was rly fun and was my first intro to CLI.

[@mao7]

2:08 love the X vs Zero theme

[@johnsimon8457]

1:30 - I spent a bit of time reimplementing fortune in Rust, which meant looking at the C source to parse those quotes libraries. ... It doesn't look like any C source you'd see today. I'm honestly not 100% this wasn't written on a teletype. 1979 was a little while ago. Also - this is from an era with 100's of people were connected to a single mini computer. So - lots of utils were built around having a quirky fun office environment. Like imagine Slack except all clients and servers were running on the local system. I like htop or ytop for process viewers WAY over original top

[@croakclyde1654]

new vid idea: "starting out your linux journey"

[@elfofrit]

>Linux >Kamen Rider >Korone >Ai wa Boomerang You gained a new sub Let's be friends 🤝

[@MultsElMesco]

@@elfofrit when niche interests collide

[@Fernando-du5uj]

Your videos are funny asf man. Never stop it!

[@bumblingberry]

Me with just a default Kitty terminal with cowspeak and a fastfetch on launch:

[@maxmuster7003]

ASCII ART is not very pixel precise. But there is a bios function (ax=1100 of int 10) for user character, so we can replace the bits of the character with our own user bits inside the character.

[@bandr-dev]

I've used arch as daily driver for 3 years now, and I've never really gotten into ricing the terminal. I'd have to have a ridiculously good reason to see graphs in my terminal, which hasn't happened.

[@diegoestrada35]

Based for using a Urusei Yatsura song as your outro

[@cbm8]

0:16 I just took the 15m 49s break to solve this problem. Well, now on to the video xd

[@flooku987]

_💀_

[@bilbobagend8155]

0:53 Just made me realize that stock image sites might be irrelevant now. At least crappy ones. Why bother paying for slop when you can generate slop at the pace of your own patience?

[@charliepettigrew2818]

does anyone know how ppl get text to display at certain places on the screen? the only way i know is print() (along with other languages equivalents), which doesn't let you specify where the text is displayed.

[@IndianaJoenz]

You left out the best ASCII animation tool, Durdraw. :)

[@jakobluckeneder1672]

0:56 yo there are generated abominations on stock image sites already? i hate it here

[@OpyrusDev]

since the past hour every video want me to go from Zorin Os to Arch but i heard about that installation difficulty (but the result is so beautiful 😭😭)

[@sophie____]

AGHHH THE STEGOSAURUS IS THE BEST THING EVER!!!! My git messages are about to be littered with these bad boys. Surely there's gotta be a way of wrapping my vim messages with the steggy boy...

[@MultsElMesco]

@@sophie____ honestly, great idea, I'll use it for my next commit messages

[@CocoTheMii]

4:39 "a few weeks ago" apparently equates to three months

[@jordanjackson6151]

2:36 Frank Zappa, referenced and I feel alive as a programmer and a shredder!!

[@eng3d]

Not only in Linux but also in Windows. BTW, I found that after the 2022 update of Windows 10, cmd.exe works really well, it renders colors correctly (no mumbo-magic) and it works acceptable. When CLI shines? maintenance/developer/admin tools

[@MapleBR]

since i found out the windows terminal app and installed powershell 7 it's been funny to work with windows. I spent a few days ricing it, most of time at work im connecting via ssh to linux servers and doing stuff directly on the command line.

[@IrohaNatsumeMyBeloved]

testing this on termux, definitely fun thing to do

[@BOBBUBO]

_hello fellow termux user 🐢_

[@aeebeecee3737]

2:11 a noteworthy mention about cowsay alike program is: ponysay -- a rewritten implementation for Bronies

[@zxuiji]

8:03...I feel called out XD

[@claytonbennett7797]

Accessible but informative Thank you, good work I use arch btw

[@Patito_Estrella]

6:44 yes, it's Lain Iwakura

[@MavikBow]

7:29 What window manager and file manager are used here?

[@cringemaki]

"Or your next not project at all because you're never going to acomplish anything [...]" Too personal and real. I want to learn to code and make this auto clicker for a game but I'm too lazy. Damn.

[@bionicseaserpent]

me using the Default KDE 6 Manjaro wallpaper:

[@nuclearnyanboi]

subbed this is my first time watching your channel

[@saekokazzu]

Thanks for that screen shot bind

[@FrozenInIce]

I actually use cli to browse files to open or to use as reference. And use browser from the cli cause it is way faster than loading the web gui.

[@CentreMetre]

My wall paper is anime, but its of Tanaka-kun saying "I dont need new developments in my life" as a reminder

[@pyrolyzed4314]

What font does your terminal use? My pursuit of a good font is never ending.

[@theblankuser]

Same, this one looks so good

[@arjix8738]

the few times I misstyped ls as sl, it did actually list the directory contents, so I thought it was an alias for ls

[@formbi]

some distros include aliases for stuff

[@Vintagestep]

idk where I saw a dude loosing his head after weeks of doing complex programming just to make a 3D moving donut with ascii in the CLI, this video reminded me of that lmao

[@backprints]

i re-installed bblean because of this video thank u

[@josuleux]

Ultrakill, megaman x and a bunch of other based osts, take my sub man

[@woddenhorse]

Caught me offgaurd at 6:44

[@chloemccarthy2297]

- Have dual, maybe more, monitors side by side. - Crank that resolution as much as possible. - Long, short terminal window spanning all monitors. - $ sl - Train is now a useless and frustratingly long loading bar. - Linux life.

[@DarkoMesarosSubotica]

Hey I saw a screenshot from my blog at 1:48 🥳

[@RealVCT]

6:42 my wallpaper has pandemonica from helltaker, does that count?

[@nonamebleach]

We need an ls-swap command for the car bros 🏎️💨

[@susulpone]

ayy, I am using tide aswell, great terminal theme

[@TheSast]

ULTRAKILL OST SPOTTED

[@hhectorlector]

is that the veiWow emote in the thumbnail or no

[@HiLordReilo]

is it just me or the thumbnail of this video changes every time I get it in my recommendations??

[@TanzimRafi-u5n]

I just loved this!!! Can you suggest more cli tools!

[@teev660]

hey whats that distro it looks so niceeee im wondering since i wanna install linux again but im not really fond of ubuntu or mint

[@GameCyborgCh]

neofetch has been discontinued for like 3 years or something, they only now just archived the repo

[@ゆぞうこ]

This made my day xD

[@amberisvibin]

i just had the strangest glitch where this entire video was replaved with a soundless cat video

[@MHAkiteru]

Flame Mammoth loves pipes

[@angeldude101]

My wallpaper is from an anime-style JRPG, but it may or may not feature an anime girl from said game for weird semantic reasons that depend on interpretation. Someone unfamiliar with the game would definitely say it does not have an anime girl.

[@amirroohi4566]

had to double check, yes my wallpaper is anime, but its just a minimalist faceless Yu Gi, so yeah

[@awful999]

omg my wallpaper is marik

[@anwarulbashirshuaib5673]

My favorite: fortune | figlet | cowsay -n -d | lolcat -t

[@TheMadProgrammersOfficial]

Mults: "Silly programs, with no purpose." Me: ... were still talking about linux right???????? right?????