{"id":1092,"date":"2018-12-01T08:43:16","date_gmt":"2018-12-01T13:43:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.both.org\/?p=1092"},"modified":"2018-12-01T08:49:20","modified_gmt":"2018-12-01T13:49:20","slug":"fun-with-ascii-art-on-the-linux-command-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.both.org\/?p=1092","title":{"rendered":"Fun with ASCII art on the Linux command line"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pld-like-dislike-wrap pld-template-1\">\r\n    <div class=\"pld-like-wrap  pld-common-wrap\">\r\n    <a href=\"javascript:void(0)\" class=\"pld-like-trigger pld-like-dislike-trigger  \" title=\"\" data-post-id=\"1092\" data-trigger-type=\"like\" data-restriction=\"cookie\" data-already-liked=\"0\">\r\n                        <i class=\"fas fa-thumbs-up\"><\/i>\r\n                <\/a>\r\n    <span class=\"pld-like-count-wrap pld-count-wrap\">    <\/span>\r\n<\/div><\/div><p>This really brings back memories of when I worked night shift on an IBM 1401 and we used to print ASCII art on the IBM 1403 printer when we had nothing else to do.<\/p>\n<p>This fun little utility, <a href=\"https:\/\/opensource.com\/article\/18\/12\/linux-toy-boxes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">boxes<\/a>, can draw various forms of boxes around text at the Linux command line. Jason Baker, my friend at <a href=\"https:\/\/Opensource.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Opensource.com<\/a> found this and made it the subject of the first of 24 articles he will be publishing this month.<\/p>\n<pre>                  .-\"\"\"-.\r\n                 \/ .===. \\\r\n                 \\\/ 6 6 \\\/\r\n                 ( \\___\/ )\r\n  ___________ooo__\\_____\/________________\r\n \/                                       \\\r\n| OK, Jason, how did I not know about the |\r\n| boxes utility before?!                  |\r\n \\_________________________ooo___________\/\r\n                  |  |  |\r\n                  |_ | _|\r\n                  |  |  |\r\n                  |__|__|\r\n                  \/-'Y'-\\\r\n                 (__\/ \\__)<\/pre>\n<p>I look forward to Jason&#8217;s next Linux toy.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This really brings back memories of when I worked night shift on an IBM 1401 and we used<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2381,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[69,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fun","category-linux"],"modified_by":"David Both","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.both.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.both.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.both.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.both.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.both.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1092"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.both.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1097,"href":"https:\/\/www.both.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1092\/revisions\/1097"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.both.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.both.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.both.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.both.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}