Add asciiquarium at "11 Linux Commands to Have Some Fun in the Terminal"

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Hello Friendsā€¦

In the following tutorial

Consider to add asciiquarium, of course, covering its installation among many distributions.

If other members of this friendly community have other suggestions about other commands, take the opportunity to report it in this post.

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Here is a script I created called demo.sh to show some nice terminal based displays.

$ cat demo.sh 
timeout-kill() {
  timeout 5 cmatrix
  pkill cmatrix
  timeout 5 htop
  pkill htop
}
clear
cat uname-a.txt | ccze -A
sleep 5
clear 
neofetch
sleep 5
clear
tail -n 500 /var/log/syslog | ccze -A
sleep 5
clear
curl wttr.in
sleep 5
clear
fortune | cowsay | lolcat
sleep 5
sl | lolcat
clear
timeout-kill &
cmatrix
htop
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I used to use fortunes-off (Offensive fortunes like fortune cookies) and pipe it to cowsay in my .bashrc. The fortunes-off package has disappeared in the latest Ubuntu releases but itā€™s still fun without the offensive fortunes. I hobbled together the code from various resources so I cannot take credit.

This is what what it looks like when I launch a terminal:

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Hereā€™s the relevant code from my .bashrc:

fi
if [ -x /usr/games/cowsay -a -x /usr/games/fortune ]; then
    fortune -s -e | cowsay
fi

The ā€˜sā€™ flag is for short fortunes only. I forget what the ā€˜eā€™ flag does but it probably sounded like a good idea when I added it.

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