{"repo":"yuhonas/zsh-ansimotd","free":true,"listed":false,"github":"https://github.com/yuhonas/zsh-ansimotd","clone":"git clone https://github.com/yuhonas/zsh-ansimotd.git","description":"a zsh-plugin to display old skool ansi & ascii bbs art on logon","language":"Shell","stars":83,"topics":["bbs","oldschool","ricing","shell","zsh","zsh-plugin","art","ascii-art"],"license":"MIT","category":"cli-tools","readme_excerpt":"zsh ansi motd (message of the day) This zsh plugin adds an old skool ansi art based motd when the login shell is executed Why I grew up in the day's of BBS's and ansi art so I wanted something to replicate the experience of jumping onto a new BBS everytime I started my login shell Installation Dependencies zsh shuf which is part of gnu coreutils For Mac/Linux using Homebrew you can install coreutils using Optional fd a modern find replacement, it will use this preferentially if it's installed otherwise fallback to find pv a pipe viewer which can limit the art rendering speed to emulate the feel of an old skool BBS Install using your favourite plugin manager or not Getting some awesome ansi art to display After installation you'll need to download some ansi art for it to randomly display, I suggest a few places 16colo.rs Head over to 16colo.rs and if you find a year(s) you like you can download everything from that year using their rsync mirror eg. to download everything from 1996 to the ANSI MOTD ART DIR artscene.textfiles.com Find a pack you like at artscene and unpack it into the ansi motd config directory You can do this by Using the plugins helper function Use ansi art download to download all zip files of ansi art from a url and unpack them into the ansi motd config directory (this can take a while depending on the amount of ansi art contained in that year) eg. to download all ansi art from 1996 from the url http://artscene.textfiles.com/artpacks/1996/ run the following ","default_branch":null,"files":null,"tree":[],"storefront":"/r/yuhonas","claimed":false,"request_supported":{"post":"https://gitbuyer.com/r/yuhonas/zsh-ansimotd/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."}