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Colorful Text using Figurine

https://youtu.be/GPQ6k2GR17I?si=Vk6hID0k7DPr-Tsh

Download and Installation

  1. Go to the GitHub page for Figurine (https://github.com/arsham/figurine) and click on Deployments.
  2. Locate the most recent version that matches the architecture of the system you’d like to install it on - in this case, the AMD64 version. Right-click it and click Copy Link.
  3. On the system you want to install Figurine on, make a temporary directory using mkdir tmp and then cd tmp.
  4. Once in the tmp directory, use the wget command followed by the pasted link you copied in step 2. Press Enter to execute the command.
wget https://github.com/arsham/figurine/releases/download/v2.1.1/figurine_linux_amd64_v2.1.1.tar.gz

5. Once the tar.gz file has been downloaded, extract it using the following command:

tar -xvf figurine_linux_amd64_v2.1.1.tar.gz
  1. The Figurine binary will be nested within a folder named deploy . In order to have Figurine accessible in your \$PATH, you will need to move it to the /usr/local/bin/ directory using the following command:
# From within the deploy folder:
sudo mv figurine /usr/local/bin/

# From within the tmp folder:
sudo mv deploy/figurine /usr/local/bin/
  1. Once it’s in your \$PATH folder, you can execute the figurine command and it will display “Arsham” (the developer’s GitHub username) in a random font of the 300+ options.
  2. You can specify a specific font using the following command:
figurine -f "3d.flf" SomeText

Use Case and Implementation

This can be added to /etc/profile.d/figurine.sh (the script does not exist and needs created) to display any text - like the hostname of the machine being logged into - when the terminal is opened or an SSH session is initiated.

sudo nano /etc/profile.d/figurine.sh

#!/bin/bash

echo ""
/usr/local/bin/figurine -f "3d.flf" $HOSTNAME
echo ""

It can also be scripted/automated using Ansible using Alex Kretzschmar’s existing infrastructure code available at https://github.com/ironicbadger/infra/tree/main.