Animated pipes terminal screensaver.
Screenshot of pipes.sh, click to watch a screencast on YouTube.
Contents
- Bash 4+ since version 1.0.0.
- ncurses for
tput
- >= 6.1 (2018-01-27) for 24-bit colors and
TERM=*-direct
.
- >= 6.1 (2018-01-27) for 24-bit colors and
Install with basher:
$ basher install mdzhang/pipes
See pipes.sh(6)
for a full list of options.
-t # |
Characters | Screenshots |
---|---|---|
-t 0 |
┃┏ ┓┛━┓ ┗┃┛┗ ┏━ |
|
-t 1 |
│╭ ╮╯─╮ ╰│╯╰ ╭─ |
|
-t 2 |
│┌ ┐┘─┐ └│┘└ ┌─ |
|
-t 3 |
║╔ ╗╝═╗ ╚║╝╚ ╔═ |
|
-t 4 |
|+ ++-+ +|++ +- |
|
-t 5 |
|/ \/-\ \|/\ /- |
|
-t 6 |
.. .... .... .. |
|
-t 7 |
.o oo.o o.oo o. |
|
-t 8 |
-\ /\|/ /-\/ \| (railway)
|
|
-t 9 |
╿┍ ┑┚╼┒ ┕╽┙┖ ┎╾ (knobby)
|
For example, -t cMAYFORCEBWITHYOU
.
Press any key to exit the program, except the following Shift + Key:
Keys | Actions |
---|---|
P / O | Increase/decrease probability of straight pipes |
F / D | Increase/decrease frame rate |
B | Toggle bold effect |
C | Toggle no colors |
K | Toggle keeping pipe color and type when crossing edges |
(Read full history in pipes.sh(6)
)
pipes.sh was originally created by Matthew Simpson and posted to the Arch Linux Forums in early 2010. It was also later posted to Gist released in the public domain.
In 2015, the MIT License was added and the Pipeseroni collective was formed to maintain pipes.sh.
Feel free to fork and/or create pull request following the guideline. If you're contributing, remember your changes will be released under the MIT license.
pipes.sh is licensed under the MIT License.