Stupid Terminal Tricks: The Dancing ASCII Party Parrot

Stupid Terminal Tricks: The Dancing ASCII Party Parrot

Want to horse around in the Terminal? If you have already finished , you have dozens of times, and youre done watching , and the scrolling is no longer cutting the mustard, perhaps its time to see a dancing color-cycling ASCII party parrot at the command line. Oh yes, with a simple command string you will have an ASCII art party parrot bobbing its head in your Terminal window. Are you excited yet? Of course you are! There isnt much rocket science or complexity to this one, so you can put down your extra cup of coffee, sit back, relax, and enjoy the magic. To see the goofy command line parrot, all you need to do is launch the Terminal application (found within your /Applications/Utilities/ directory), then type the following command string: Hit the Return key and in just a moment you will be enjoying an endlessly dancing party parrot. When you have finished enjoying your ASCII head bobbing parrot, hit Control+C to stop the dance. If youre wondering how this works, it uses the to stream the ASCII from the server parrot.live, you can break the magic by scrolling up the Terminal window and youll see its just a ton of text that is scrolling down the window, thereby giving the illusion its a dancing bobbing parrot head. Heres what this little gem looks like in animated GIF format: Is this useful? Is this the most important thing you will see this day, year, decade? Is this the secret of the universe? Is a party parrot dancing in ASCII art at your Terminal the purpose of it all? Who knows? But its goofy, and sometimes goofy is just plain fun. This little trick was found on Twitter from @darksim905, and apparently theres an entire for anyone interested in taking this to some other level. hey fam. If you use Linux, you should totally run 'curl ' Youyou're welcome (I'm so sorry) Sim (@darksim905) Its Friday, can you tell? Alright, now that youre hooked on ASCII parrots, you can have a little fun and , , or indulge yourself in .