- Banner (Unix)
The banner program displays a large
ASCII art version of input text. It is commonly included inUnix and Unix-likeoperating system s. There are two common varieties: one, which prints text horizontally for display to a terminal, and another which prints text in much larger letters for output to aline printer .A related, and more flexible, program is
figlet , which can display text in different fonts and orientations.Implementations
A partial list of implementations:
* By
AT&T , inUNIX System V . [http://www.zen77087.zen.co.uk/nug/alleg/sysv-aix-dynix.shtml] [http://www.zen77087.zen.co.uk/nug/doc/IBM-157-28-E.pdf]
* By Cedar Solutions. Runs on modern Linux systems as of 2008. Prints horizontally only with a fixed size. [http://cedar-solutions.com/software/utilities.html] [http://freshmeat.net/projects/banner/]
* By Mark Horton at the University of California Berkely, distributed as part of the bsd-games package. Runs of modern Linux, GNU Hurd and Mac OS X systems as of 2008. Prints vertically with variable size font. [http://packages.debian.org/stable/games/bsdgames]Example output
From the terminal-oriented banner program: $ banner Hello! # # ### # # ###### # # #### ### # # # # # # # ### ####### ##### # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # ### # # ###### ###### ###### #### ###
One letter from the printer-oriented banner program in
Mac OS X :$ banner -w80 "a" ##### ######### ############### ### ################ ###### ################## ######## ##### ##### ######### #### #### ## ### ### #### ## ### ### ## ### ### ### #### ### #### ############################# ############################## ############################## ############################ ########################### ### # #
See also
*
List of Unix programs
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