Command line fun

[Texstar]

Copy and paste the following code in a konsole terminal window and press enter for a little winter surprise.  

Oh the weather outside is frightful
But the fire is so delightful...
And since we've no place to go....

Code: [Select]

clear; while :; do echo $LINES $COLUMNS $(($RANDOM%$COLUMNS)); sleep 0.1; done | awk '{a[$3]=0; for(x in a) {o=a[x]; a[x]=a[x]+1; printf "\033[%s;%sH ",o,x; printf "\033[%s;%sH*\033[0;0H",a[x],x;}}'

[Just17]

 

Nice one! 

[JohnW_57]

A early Easter egg !  lol

JohnW

[Rudge]

LOL,, Awesome !!!    

[jaydot]

ooh! quality snow.  it settles. 

[Rudge]

Code: [Select]

clear; while :; do echo $LINES $COLUMNS $(($RANDOM%$COLUMNS)); sleep 0.1; done | awk '{a[$3]=0; for(x in a) {o=a[x]; a[x]=a[x]+1; printf "\033[%s;%sH ",o,x; printf "\033[%s;%sH*\033[0;0H",a[x],x;}}' &
Try it with an "&" at the end..  You can keep working,,, for a bit. Until you get "snowed-in"    

[Linux-Blue]

not sure how you got that picture up with the snow. I see snow in the terminal, or those * coming down and landing on the bottom.
I'm guessing you used a wallpaper as your background image for the terminal. Can't find that anymore.

Snowed in? I tried both codes, and only one line gets filled.

[RobNJ]

Great!!

[Rudge]

not sure how you got that picture up with the snow. I see snow in the terminal, or those * coming down and landing on the bottom.
I'm guessing you used a wallpaper as your background image for the terminal. Can't find that anymore.

Snowed in? I tried both codes, and only one line gets filled.

It's a "Screenie" shot of "LXTerminal", full screen in LXDE.

I like to set a slight transparency to LXTerminal so what you are seeing is my desktop behind LXTerminal.