[Quick Tips-Terminal_Commands ]: List Of 10 Funny Linux Commands

List Of 10 Funny Linux Commands

Working from the Terminal is really fun. Today, we’ll list really funny Linux commands which will bring smile on your face.

 1. rev

Create a file, type some words in this file, rev command will dump all words written by you in reverse.

# rev  <file name>

2. fortune

This command is not install by default, install with apt-get and fortune will display some random sentence.

crank@crank-System:~$ sudo apt-get install fortune

Use -s option with fortune, it will limit the out to one sentence.

# fortune -s

3. yes

#yes <string>

This command will keep displaying the string for infinite time until the process is killed by the user.

# yes unixmen

4. figlet

This command can be installed with apt-get, comes with some ascii fonts which are located in /usr/share/figlet.

cd /usr/share/figlet

#figlet -f <font>  <string>

e.g.

#figlet -f big.flf unixmen

#figlet -f block.flf  unixmen

You can try another options also.

5. asciiquarium

This command will transform your terminal in to a Sea Aquarium.

Download term animator

# wget http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/K/KB/KBAUCOM/Term-Animation-2.4.tar.gz

Install and Configure above package.

# tar -zxvf Term-Animation-2.4.tar.gz
# cd Term-Animation-2.4/
# perl Makefile.PL && make && make test
# sudo make install

Install following package:

# apt-get install libcurses-perl

Download and install asciiquarium

# wget http://www.robobunny.com/projects/asciiquarium/asciiquarium.tar.gz
# tar -zxvf asciiquarium.tar.gz 
# cd asciiquarium_1.0/
# cp asciiquarium /usr/local/bin/

Run,

# /usr/local/bin/asciiquarium

 

6. bb

# apt-get install bb
# bb

See what comes out:

 7. sl

Sometimes you type sl instead of ls by mistake,actually  sl is a command and a locomotive engine will start moving if you type sl.

# apt-get install sl

# sl

 8. cowsay

Very common command, is will display in ascii form whatever you wants to say.

apt-get install cowsay

# cowsay <string>

Or, you can use another character instead of com, such characters are stored in/usr/share/cowsay/cows

# cd /usr/share/cowsay/cows

cowsay -f ghostbusters.cow  unixmen

or

# cowsay -f bud-frogs.cow Rajneesh

 9. toilet

Yes, this is a command, it dumps ascii strings in colored form to the terminal.

# apt-get install toilet

# toilet --gay unixmen

 toilet -F border -F gay unixmen

toilet  -f mono12 -F metal  unixmen

 10. aafire

Put you terminal on fire with aafire.

# apt-get install libaa-bin

# aafire

That it, Have fun with Linux Terminal!