irssi, figlet, greatness

Posted on Nov. 21, 2008 by Ben Dickson.

This is an old post from 2008. The content may be outdated or no longer relevant.

This is an old post I wrote, which was originally posted on neverfear.org on Fri, 21st Nov 2008 21:23:43. Archived here for posterity.

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/alias figlet /exec - -o echo $0-| figlet -w 60 | awk -F% 'function randint(n){return int(33+n * rand())} {printf("x03%s%sn",randint(12),$1)}'

Combining the joys of shell scripting, figlet, irssi colour escape codes and two different kind of escape sequences, you can achieve the following...

Awe Inspiring Figletification

Eternally useful, is it not?

Run the above code in irssi, then /figlet !