There are many fun things you can do with Termux on your Android device. Here are a few examples:
Linux is fun! Huhhh. OK, if you don’t believe me. Mind me at the end of the blog, you will have to believe that Linux is actually a fun box.
Game emulation
You can use Termux to emulate classic games like Tetris, Pac-Man, and Space Invaders.
Music players
You can use termux to listen to music on your Android device. There are several terminal-based music players available, like cmus, mocp, and ncmpcpp.
Customizing terminal
You can use the termux style to change the look of your terminal. The package provides several color schemes and themes for the terminal
FIGlet
FIGlet is a computer program that generates text banners, in a variety of typefaces, composed of letters made up of conglomerations of smaller ASCII characters.
To install FIGlet run the following commands:
_ _ _ _ __ __ _ _ _ _
| | | | ___| | | ___ \ \ / /__ _ __| | __| | | |
| |_| |/ _ \ | |/ _ \ \ \ /\ / / _ \| '__| |/ _` | | |
| _ | __/ | | (_) | \ V V / (_) | | | | (_| |_|_|
|_| |_|\___|_|_|\___/ \_/\_/ \___/|_| |_|\__,_(_|_)Toilet
You can use the toilet command to create ASCII art in the terminal. It supports many different styles, such as 3D, slant, and bubble.
To install a toilet just type the following:
Which will install the toilet and any other packages on which it depends.
Cmatrix
Cmatrix is written in ncurses under Linux and should compile on other OSes with few modifications. I am always interested to hear from people who use this program and any modifications they make to it!
Let’s start with How to Get the Matrix Effect The terminal on any terminal:
for help! run following:
Just type the following command for matrix effect:
Every time you always remember to terminate any command just click: CTRL + C.
Cowsay
Cowsay is a program that generates ASCII pictures of a cow with a message. It can also generate pictures using pre-made images of other animals, such as Tux the Penguin, and the Linux mascot. It is written in Perl.
There is also a related program called cow think, with cows with thought bubbles rather than speech bubbles.
To install COWSAY type the following:
Give Cowsay a line of text and it will generate the image of talking cows in ASCII art saying that line.
_________________________________________
/ Subscribe \
\ to my YouTube channel /
-----------------------------------------
\ ^__^
\ (oo)\_______
(__)\ )\/\
||----w |
|| ||
sl (Steam Locomotive)
You might be aware of the command ‘ls‘in the list command and use it frequently to view the contents of a folder but because of miss-typing sometimes you would result in ‘sl‘, how about getting a little fun in the terminal and not “command not found“.
yes
It is funny but useful as well, especially in scripts and for System Administrators where an automated predefined response can be passed to the terminal or generated.
yes <what you want to print>
Note: (Till you interrupt i.e. ctrl+c).
screenfetch
ScreenFetch is a System Information Tool designed primarily for Bash Shell but functions with other shell environments as well. The tool is smart enough to auto-detect the Linux distribution you are using and generate the ASCII logo of the distribution with certain valuable information to the right of the logo.
Type following:
There are many such tools.
