The Linux command line can fetch enjoyable from afar

We’re virtually to the tip of our 24-day-long Linux command-line toys introduction calendar. Hopefully, you have been following alongside, but when not, begin again at the beginning and work your means by way of. You’ll discover loads of video games, diversions, and oddities to your Linux terminal.

And whereas you will have seen some toys from our calendar earlier than, we hope there’s not less than one new factor for everybody.

Today’s toy (or truly, assortment of toys) is a bit totally different. So far I’ve principally tried to give attention to toys which can be self-contained, and fully usable below an open supply license. But I’ve gotten some nice strategies from readers which make the most of an open supply device to entry one thing remotely that will or might not be open supply. Today, I will spherical up just a few of these.

The first one is a complete traditional: use Telnet to observe an ASCII-rendition of Star Wars. Chances are that Telnet is already put in in your system, so all you may must do is run:

$ telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl

I really feel like I first noticed this one over a decade in the past, so it’s kind of wonderful to me that it is nonetheless alive and on-line. If you have by no means watched it, put aside a while and go test it out. You will not remorse it.

Next, Opensource.com contributor Manuel Dewald steered a method to fetch your native climate from the terminal. It’s straightforward, and solely requires that you’ve curl (or, properly, wget) put in.

$ curl wttr.in

Finally, whilst you can spend the vacations studying your favourite websites (together with Opensource.com) out of your favourite command-line web browser, there are just a few of my favourite websites which can be extra simply browsed with a devoted shopper. Two of those embrace Reddit and Hacker News, for which there are purchasers which have been beneficial to me that you could be want to attempt, principally obtainable below open supply licenses. I’ve poked round with haxor-news (Hacker News) and rtv (Reddit), and each appear fairly cool.

Do you’ve got a favourite command-line toy that we must always have included? It’s a bit late to submit a suggestion for this 12 months, however we might nonetheless like to function some cool command-line toys within the new 12 months. Let me know within the feedback under, and I will test it out. And let me know what you considered at the moment’s amusement.

Be positive to take a look at yesterday’s toy, Watch YouTube videos at the Linux terminal, and are available again tomorrow for one more!