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[–] abbadon420@lemm.ee 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

[–] idunnololz@lemmy.world 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.

[–] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 12 points 9 months ago

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

[–] docAvid@midwest.social 13 points 9 months ago

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

[–] Kerb@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

the best part is the version with the flags -al

[–] Aatube@kbin.social 2 points 9 months ago

you mean -Flacked

[–] Kerb@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] joyjoy@lemm.ee 0 points 9 months ago

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

[–] Aatube@kbin.social 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

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