NAME
lolcat - rainbow coloring effect for text console display
SYNOPSIS
lolcat [options] [files] ...
DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the lolcat command.
lolcat is a program that concatenates files, or standard input, to standard output (like the generic cat), and adds rainbow coloring to it.
OPTIONS
- -p X, --spread=X
-
Inclination of the rainbow stripes
(character widths per line hight; high values (>1000) give almost horizonal stripes, low values (0.1) almost vertical ones; default: 3.0).
- -F X, --freq=X
-
Frequency of the rainbow effect.
(low values around 0.0001 give almost monochromous screens; default: 0.1).
- -S X, --seed=X
-
Initial value for the random number generator; 0 means automatic.
(default: 0).
- -a, --animate
-
Fade every line through an animation before printing the next one.
- -d X, --duration=X
-
Duration of the animation.
(number of steps before showing next line; default: 12)
- -s X, --speed=X
-
Speed of the animation.
(frame rate, ie. number of steps per second; default: 20)
- -i, --invert
-
Inverts the background and foreground colors.
- -t, --truecolor
-
Enables 24-bit truecolor mode.
- -f, --force
-
Force color even when stdout is not a tty.
- -v, --version
-
Shows lolcat version.
- -h, --help
-
Shows options summary.
EXAMPLES
Typical combinations of lolcat include other programs that generate text:
Large colorful words can be written like this:
-
echo "KTHXBAI" | toilet | lolcat
Cows are popular, come in all colors, and tell random epigrams:
-
fortune | cowsay | lolcat -a
SEE ALSO
AUTHOR
lolcat was written by Moe <[email protected]>.
This manual page was originally written by chrysn <[email protected]>, for the Debian project.
Very quickly revamped by Mathieu Aubin <[email protected]> to include as part of official code repository.