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submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 51 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (5 children)

I also like the sl command for linux: https://github.com/mtoyoda/sl

The animation takes ages and you can't cancel it XD

[–] [email protected] 20 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

IIRC the train travels at a constant speed so you can make it faster by resizing your terminal so it's narrower. Thus the train has a shorter distance to travel and the animation length is reduced.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago

echo 'while true; do sl; done' >> ~/.bashrc

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

TIL

[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago

And it has a whole set of options based on common ls options. Classic and brilliant.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

the best part is the version with the flags -al

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

you mean -Flacked

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

you can actuall stop it by pressing ctrl-z and running bg

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

The average bash user doesn't know how to do that.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I'm sure there's an asciicast of this beautiful steamroll somewhere...

[–] [email protected] 21 points 9 months ago

What, no websocket-based realtime statistics for number of total, daily and hourly mistypings?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

spoiler, try the link first

The giant text makes it even better