lolcat - rainbow coloring for text
lolcat [options] [files]
...
This manual page documents briefly the lolcat command.
lolcat is a program that concatenates files, or standard
input, to standard output (like the generic cat), and adds rainbow
coloring to it.
- -p f,
--spread=f
- Inclination of the rainbow stripes (character widths per line hight; high
values (>1000) give almost horizonal stripes, low values (0.1) almost
vertical ones; default: 3.0).
- -F f,
--freq=f
- Frequency of the rainbow (low values around 0.0001 give almost
monochromous screens; default: 0.1).
- -S i,
--seed=i
- Initial value for the random number generator; 0 means automatic (default:
0).
- -a, --animate
- Fade every line through an animation before printing the next one.
- -d i,
--duration=i
- Duration of the animation (number of steps before showing next line;
default: 12)
- -s i,
--speed=i
- Speed of the animation (frame rate, ie. number of steps per second;
default: 20)
- -f, --force
- Force color even when stdout is not a tty
- -v, --version
- Show version of lolcat.
- -h, --help
- Show summary of options.
Typical combinations of lolcat include other programs that
generate text:
Large colorful words can be written like this:
-
echo "KTHXBAI" | toilet | lolcat
Cows are popular, come in all colors, and tell random
epigrams:
-
fortune | cowsay | lolcat -a
lolcat was written by Moe <moe@busyloop.net>.
This manual page was written by chrysn <chrysn@fsfe.org>,
for the Debian project (and may be used by others).