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NOTE: The following does not use any harmful commands, if in doubt, use the `man` command to view what a command does like this:
man echo
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Who said using the command line was boring, difficult and has no place in computing today? It comes in very handy when you're bored!
Using your favorite plain text editor (Kate, gEdit, Vi(m), Emacs), copy and paste the following into it:
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| Code: #!/bin/bash # Hacked together by Ben Lavery # 15th June 2009 # b l r m . \ X / # e . a e y g a l c m \ / \ / # n v @ i o V V LINE=`resize | grep -i line | grep -iv colu |sed 's/[a-zA-Z]//g' | sed 's/\(=\)\(.*\)\(;\)/\2/'` clear(){ for i in $($LINE) do echo done } wave(){ echo " o/" && echo " .|" && echo " / \\" sleep 1 clear echo " o|" && echo " .|" && echo " / \\" sleep 1 clear } clear while : do #echo " o/" && echo " .|" && echo " / \\" #sleep 1 #clear wave wave wave echo " o" && echo " .|\\" && echo " / \\" sleep 1 clear echo " o" && echo " |" && echo " |" sleep 1 clear echo " o" && echo " /|." && echo " / \\" sleep 1 clear echo " o" && echo " |" && echo " |" sleep 1 clear echo " o" && echo " .|\\" && echo " / \\" sleep 1 clear echo " o" && echo " .|\\" && echo " / \\" sleep 1 clear echo " o" && echo " /|." && echo " / \\" sleep 1 clear echo " o" && echo " |" && echo " |" sleep 1 clear echo " o" && echo " /|." && echo " / \\" sleep 1 clear echo " o" && echo " |" && echo " |" sleep 1 clear echo " o" && echo " .|\\" && echo " / \\" sleep 1 clear done | |
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Save it as ta-da.sh on your desktop
Open up Terminal/Term/xterm/etc and perform the following operation on it:
cd $HOME/Desktop
chmod 555 ta-da.sh
./ta-da.sh
Use ctrl+c to exit the script.
Enjoy
