Bash Screensavers: Terminal-Based ASCII Art Animations for Idle Shell Sessions
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attogram
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Summary
Bash Screensavers is a GitHub repository offering a collection of screensavers written entirely in bash scripting language. The project transforms idle terminal sessions into visual playgrounds with animated ASCII art using basic shell commands like echo, sleep, and tput. It includes a gallery of screensavers, quickstart instructions, command-line usage, and community features like contributing guidelines and a chat. The project emphasizes simplicity and creativity in terminal environments without requiring complex graphics hardware.
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Because who needs fancy graphics cards and complex rendering engines when you have echo, sleep, and a little bit of tput magic?
Turn your idle shell into a visual playground with this collection of Bash screensavers.
Start with the menu of screensavers: ./screensaver.sh
Turn your idle shell into a visual playground with this collection of Bash screensavers - attogram/bash-screensavers
