Docker Funbox

Docker container with fun geeky terminal commands and ASCII art.

Featuring

In alphabetic order:

• AA-lib
• ASCIIQuarium
• BB
• BinClock
• boxes
• CMatrix
• cowsay
• falling-<3s.sh
• FIGlet
• fortune
• ImageMagick
• libcaca
• Linux_Logo
• lolcat
• nyancat
• pipes
• RIG - Random identity generator
• sl (not to be confused with ls)
• TOIlet
• VLC
• XaoS

Basic usage

$ docker run --rm -it wernight/funbox
                         _       _     _      ____             _
__      _____ _ __ _ __ (_) __ _| |__ | |_   / / _|_   _ _ __ | |__   _____  __
\ \ /\ / / _ \ '__| '_ \| |/ _` | '_ \| __| / / |_| | | | '_ \| '_ \ / _ \ \/ /
 \ V  V /  __/ |  | | | | | (_| | | | | |_ / /|  _| |_| | | | | |_) | (_) >  <
  \_/\_/ \___|_|  |_| |_|_|\__, |_| |_|\__/_/ |_|  \__,_|_| |_|_.__/ \___/_/\_\
                           |___/

Screensavers / inifite animations:
  1) `aafire` - Fire pit
  2) `asciiquarium` - Aquarium
  3) `cacademo` - caca-utils demo
  4) `cmatrix` - Matrix
  5) `falling-hearts` - Falling Hearts screensaver
  6) `nyancat` - Nyan cat
  7) `pipes` - Pipes screensaver
  8) `xaos` - real-time interactive fractal zoomer
Demos / short animations:
  9) `bb` - ASCII art demo
 10) `sl` - Train passing by
 11) `youtube` - Alias to watch YouTube video using `youtube-dl`, `vlc` and `caca`
Static ASCII art:
  * Text`formatting:
     12) `cowsay` - Talking cow (or actually many others, run with `-l` to get a list and via `-f <name>` to use one)
     13) `figlet` - ASCII large text print
     14) `toilet` - ASCII large text print
  * Other:
     15) `aview` - Convert image to ASCII art
     16) `cacaview` - Convert image to ASCII art
     17) `boxes` - Put various frames around given block of ASCII art.
     18) `binclock` - Current time in binary.
     19) `linuxlogo` - Standard linux logos
     20) `lolcat` - Colorful `cat`
Random text generator:
 21) `rig` - Kind of person ID
 22) `fortune` - Random fortune cookie message

Some Examples

$ docker run --rm -it wernight/funbox nyancat

$ docker run --rm -it wernight/funbox asciiquarium

$ docker run --rm -it wernight/funbox sh -c "figlet funbox | boxes | toilet --gay -f term"

$ docker run --rm -it wernight/funbox watch -ct -n1 "date '+%D%n%T' | figlet -k | boxes -a c -s 59 -d cat"

$ docker run --rm -it wernight/funbox cvlc --no-audio -V caca /examples/countdown.mp4

You can also watch YouTube videos from the console thanks to the youtube alias (using youtube-dl, vlc and caca-utils) then use cvlc keyboard shortcuts:

$ docker run --rm -it wernight/funbox youtube 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMljuVqqmVU'

Security and mounting volumes

For security, all tools run as non-root user with uid 666. So to access mounted volumes (images or media) do one of the following from within your Docker host:

• Make them readable by everyone chmod o+rx
• make them readable by uid/gid 666
• Run as another user: docker run --rm -it --user $UID wernight/funbox ...

Example:

$ chown 666 my-image.png
$ docker run --rm -it -v $PWD/my-image.png:/my-image.png:ro wernight/funbox metapixel /my-image.png

See also

• 20 amusing Linux commands to have fun with the terminal
• mewbies.com Fun On The Terminal - Index