Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 23:14:09 -0400 From: jhell <jhell@DataIX.net> To: jhell <jhell@DataIX.net> Cc: Bertram Scharpf <lists@bertram-scharpf.de>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [OT] Show nice columns of numers Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0910282310310.91845@qvzrafvba.5c.ybpny> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0910282252470.91845@qvzrafvba.5c.ybpny> References: <20091028223242.GA26697@marge.bs.l> <alpine.BSF.2.00.0910282252470.91845@qvzrafvba.5c.ybpny>
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On Wed, 28 Oct 2009 23:03, jhell@ wrote: > > On Wed, 28 Oct 2009 18:32, lists@ wrote: >> Hi, >> >> >> my company is going to shoot a TV spot that will show me at work. >> The first thing my desktop will contain is some BSD/FreeBSD logo. >> >> As it will be a movie, not a photograph, I would like to have huge >> columns of numbers running over the screen or at least one window. >> Does somebody know a programm that produces such nice output? >> >> Thanks in advance. >> >> Bertram >> >> >> > > > Nice output so far. I like seeing all these examples Polytropon's to be > specific. > > Here is another one for you that is a little unique that you might not see on > every computer out there. > > Integer Sequences database located here: > fetch http://www.research.att.com/~njas/sequences/stripped.gz > > Put some real previous work back to work!. ;) > > sed & awk that file to your liking to change commas spaces or such around so > it can be spilled out to a terminal then toil the end result with the > something like the following. > > # For bourne style shells. > for line in `zcat stripped.gz`; do echo $line && sleep .09 ;done > > The above command on that file will show you the reason why some awk'ing > might be needed but that's up to you. > > Best of luck. > > For extra added effect make things a little bit larger. xterm -fn 12x24 -geometry 80x30+0+0 -bw 0 -T "Your favorite title here." -- Wed Oct 28 23:10:31 2009 -0500 jhell
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