I've seen people using the terminal command: banner
. This creates big ascii-art-style text.
When I try to run it, however, the terminal says it doesn't exist. Why?
How do I install it? Are there any alternatives?
I've seen people using the terminal command: banner
. This creates big ascii-art-style text.
When I try to run it, however, the terminal says it doesn't exist. Why?
How do I install it? Are there any alternatives?
You need to install it before you can use it. Type in the terminal:
sudo apt-get install sysvbanner
This Package is not available in the standard installation and for this is why you have to install it manually.
I've always preferred figlet
for big writing. Something about it preserves the character shape better. A bit subjective but there you go. Simple enough:
$ sudo apt-get install figlet
$ figlet oh hai!
_ _ _ _
___ | |__ | |__ __ _(_) |
/ _ \| '_ \ | '_ \ / _` | | |
| (_) | | | | | | | | (_| | |_|
\___/|_| |_| |_| |_|\__,_|_(_)
(It looks better in a terminal than it does here)
There are a ton of formatting options too that make it suitable for lots of different situations. It does this through "fonts" (standard
, slant
, shadow
, small
, smslant
, bubble
, digital
, mini
, etc). man figlet
has a full listing of available styles and formatting options but here are a few examples:
$ figlet -f slant Hooah!
__ __ __ __
/ / / /___ ____ ____ _/ /_ / /
/ /_/ / __ \/ __ \/ __ `/ __ \/ /
/ __ / /_/ / /_/ / /_/ / / / /_/
/_/ /_/\____/\____/\__,_/_/ /_(_)
$ figlet -f smslant Hooah!
__ __ __ __
/ // /__ ___ ___ _/ / / /
/ _ / _ \/ _ \/ _ `/ _ \/_/
/_//_/\___/\___/\_,_/_//_(_)
$ figlet -f bubble Hooah!
_ _ _ _ _ _
/ \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \
( H | o | o | a | h | ! )
\_/ \_/ \_/ \_/ \_/ \_/
$ figlet -f mini Hooah!
|_| _ _ _.|_ |
| |(_)(_)(_|| |o
If you wish to use other "fonts" / ASCII art for a banner, you could also look at figlet:
sudo apt-get install figlet
foo@bar:~$ figlet
hi
_ _
| |__ (_)
| '_ \| |
| | | | |
|_| |_|_|
cheers
sc.
Found one more named as toilet.
sudo apt-get install toilet
Then run
toilet -f bigmono9 -F gay <your string>
For Example:
Alternative (without installing anything)
figlet YOUR BANNER HERE
Example Bash code:
#!/bin/bash
printf "
YOUR FIGLET BANNER HERE
"
Open your terminal and paste as
sudo apt-get install sysvbanner
Usage:
banner <yourstring>
Example:
Another (longer) option that might be helpful if there's any nodejs involvement is ascii-banner
. It's a node library but it can be scripted out.
$ sudo apt-get install npm
$ sudo npm -g install ascii-banner
$ node -e "var AsciiBanner = require('ascii-banner');AsciiBanner.write('Oh hai').out();"
______ __ __ __ __ ___ __
/ __ \ | | | | | | | | / \ | |
| | | | | |__| | | |__| | / ^ \ | |
| | | | | __ | | __ | / /_\ \ | |
| `--' | | | | | | | | | / _____ \ | |
\______/ |__| |__| |__| |__| /__/ \__\ |__|
It also has font options:
$ node -e "require('ascii-banner').write('Oh hai').font('Thin').out();"
,---.| | o
| ||---. |---.,---..
| || | | |,---||
`---'` ' ` '`---^`
.color(...)
and alignment and before(...)
and after(...)
(again, with alignment and colour) arguments.
– Oli♦
Dec 17 '13 at 14:04