{"repo":"ascii-boxes/boxes","free":true,"listed":false,"github":"https://github.com/ascii-boxes/boxes","clone":"git clone https://github.com/ascii-boxes/boxes.git","description":"Command line ASCII boxes unlimited!","language":"C","stars":682,"topics":["ascii-art","ascii-graphics","ascii","filter","command-line"],"license":"GPL-3.0","category":"cli-tools","readme_excerpt":"boxes Command line ASCII boxes unlimited! Boxes is a command line filter program which draws ASCII art boxes around your input text (examples). For more information, please visit the website. Download The recommended way is to install boxes via your package manager. But many ways exist to get boxes onto your machine, details here. Running it Try if boxes works by typing echo foo boxes on the command line. It should give you something like that: / / / foo / / / Type boxes -l to get a long list of box designs to use. Detailed usage information is in the manual page and on the website. Consider tying boxes to your editor, so that it can be invoked by a simple keypress. Status Boxes is stable . It has been around since 1999, and is still available and kept current in many package managers (apt, rpm, choco, brew, just to name a few). Its source code is quite portable, and so, boxes has been made to run on a wide range of platforms, from Windows PCs to Netgear routers. Boxes has matured, and is thusly no longer being actively developed. But contributors can be sure that their pull requests are promptly reviewed and merged into the main code base. Development The website has information on building from source, testing, and contributing to the source code. Boxes has received support from many contributors over the years, and continues to benefit greatly from contributions. Many thanks for that! Custom box designs In addition to the pre-defined box designs, you can define your own bo","default_branch":null,"files":null,"tree":[],"storefront":"/r/ascii-boxes","claimed":false,"request_supported":{"post":"https://gitbuyer.com/r/ascii-boxes/boxes/request-supported","requests":0},"note":"indexed from public GitHub; nothing is for sale on this page. Clone it from GitHub. Paid listings live at /search."}