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Encyclopedia > Banner (Unix)

The banner program displays a large ASCII art version of input text. It is commonly included in Unix and Unix-like operating systems. The terms computer program, software program, applications program, system software, or just program are used to refer to either an executable program by both lay people and computer programmers or the collection of source code from which an executable program is created (eg, compiled). ... ASCII art, an artistic medium relying primarily on computers for presentation, consists of pictures pieced together from characters (preferably from the 95 printable characters defined by ASCII). ... Unix or UNIX is a computer operating system originally developed in the 1960s and 1970s by a group of AT&T Bell Labs employees including Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, and Douglas McIlroy. ... An operating system (OS) is a software program that manages the hardware and software resources of a computer. ...


Example usage

 $ banner "Hello!" # # ### # # ###### # # #### ### # # # # # # # ### ####### ##### # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # ### # # ###### ###### ###### #### ### 

See also

Unix command line programs ( view, talk, edit )
File and file system management: cat | chdir/cd | chmod | chown | chgrp | cp | du | df | fdupes | file | fsck | ln | ls | lsof | mkdir | more | mount | mv | pwd | rcp | rm | rmdir | split | touch | tree
Process management: anacron | at | chroot | cron/crontab | kill | nice | ps | sleep | time | timex | top | renice | wait
User Management/Environment: env | finger | id | locale | mesg | passwd | su | sudo | uname | uptime | w | who | write
Text processing: awk | cut | diff | ex | head | iconv | join | less | more | nkf | paste | sed | sort | tail | tr | uniq | wc | xargs
Shell programming: echo | expr | unset Printing: lp
Communications:
inetd | netstat | ping | rlogin | traceroute
Searching:
egrep | fgrep | find | grep | strings
Miscellaneous:
banner | bc | cal | man | uname | yes


 
 

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