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LOLCAT(6) Games Manual LOLCAT(6) 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 cat(1), toilet(1), fortune(6), cowsay(6) AUTHOR lolcat was written by Moe <moe@busyloop.net>. This manual page was originally written by chrysn <chrysn@fsfe.org>, for the Debian project. Very quickly revamped by Mathieu Aubin <mathieu@zeroserieux.com> to include as part of official code repository. April 4, 2019 LOLCAT(6)
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