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ASCII art generator
I'm looking for an ASCII art generator (text is preferred, but images will do too) in the sl style, but with text instead of trains. Any suggestion?
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Align columns in ASCII file
I have a text file that looks like his:
#c1 c2 c3 c4 c5 c6 c7 c8 c9 c10 c11 c12 c13
4599 995,274 2523,658 ...
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Convert discus output into readable HTML mail
How can I take the DISCUS command output below:
and convert it into something HTML email friendly? I've bash scripted something like this:
#!/bin/sh
discus > /tmp/discus.log
touch ...
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Output png as binary [closed]
Title says it all. I'm on a unix machine, can't figure it out. Sublime Text 2 opens the PNG as Hex and TextMate as ASCII. I need binary. How can I do it?
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How do you write specific bytes to a file?
Given a file myfile with the following contents:
$ cat myfile
foos
A hexdump of the file gives us the contents:
$ hexdump myfile
6f66 736f 000a
Currently, I can create the file by specifying the ...
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Printing decimal to ascii character, my command does not output as intended
I wanted to output a string of all the ascii characters with the following command
for i in `seq 32 127`; do printf "%c" $i; done
The output of the above command is:
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Shell script to detect PDFs with non-ASCII contents
I need a shell script to detect valid PDFs. That is, I need to retain only plain ASCII PDFs. Other PDFs which contain non-ASCII contents and malicious scripts need to be deleted. How could I go about ...
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Email signature is distorted in Yahoo's new webmail client
I'm using vim+mutt to write e-mails which I send via IMAP through Google. When I include a signature file to be used, and that file contains an ASCII signature (figlet font), it is badly displayed by ...
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How can I find all ascii files under one directory that have the word shirt in them? Starting from root
What command would I use to find all of the files under the girl directory that have the ascii text “shirt” inside the files, starting from the root directory?
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Image (having text-and-numbers) to text-file matching [:alnum:] nicely with some Unix -tool?
Suppose a photograph with text and numbers. I want to manage it in my editor with tools such as grep, standard text-processing things such as Vim's block-highlighting and also more advanced things ...
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How is the octal 2-byte output calculated from od
I'm struggling to work out what the octal 2-byte output from the od command is. I understand the octal output (-b flag) but the octal 2-byte is a mystery to me (-o)
Can someone shed some light on how ...
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Which tools for ASCII portfolio visualization?
I. I want to do a simple graph from timestamp YEAR-month-day to valuation, not wanting to use spreadsheets. Is there some ASCII tool for it to see it on CLI? There are over 500k lines of data, and I ...
