Do you know what time it is?
Couple of simple command line clocks.
Couple
of simple clocks. Great for giving an old pc something to do for grins.
Actually I was running these two programs from the nslu2 arm based unit
running debian linux.
To install:
$ sudo apt-get install sysvbanner figlet
If your system does not have figlet you can get it from the web.
$ wget ftp://ftp.figlet.org/pub/figlet/program/unix/figlet-2.2.5.tar.gz
$ tar zxvf figlet-2.2.5.tar.gz
$ cd figlet-2.2.5/
$ make
$ sudo make install
Usage:
watch -tn 1 date +%T \|figlet -c
or
watch -t -n 1 "date +%T | xargs banner"
To install:
$ sudo apt-get install sysvbanner figlet
If your system does not have figlet you can get it from the web.
$ wget ftp://ftp.figlet.org/pub/figlet/program/unix/figlet-2.2.5.tar.gz
$ tar zxvf figlet-2.2.5.tar.gz
$ cd figlet-2.2.5/
$ make
$ sudo make install
Usage:
watch -tn 1 date +%T \|figlet -c
or
watch -t -n 1 "date +%T | xargs banner"
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