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LOLCAT(6) Games Manual LOLCAT(6)

NAME

lolcat - rainbow coloring effect for text console display

SYNOPSIS

lolcat [options] [files] ...

DESCRIPTION

This manual page documents briefly the lolcat command.

lolcat is a program that concatenates files, or standard input, to standard output (like the generic cat), and adds rainbow coloring to it.

OPTIONS

Inclination of the rainbow stripes
(character widths per line hight; high values (>1000) give almost horizonal stripes, low values (0.1) almost vertical ones; default: 3.0).
Frequency of the rainbow effect.
(low values around 0.0001 give almost monochromous screens; default: 0.1).
Initial value for the random number generator; 0 means automatic.
(default: 0).
Fade every line through an animation before printing the next one.
Duration of the animation.
(number of steps before showing next line; default: 12)
Speed of the animation.
(frame rate, ie. number of steps per second; default: 20)
Inverts the background and foreground colors.
Enables 24-bit truecolor mode.
Force color even when stdout is not a tty.
Shows lolcat version.
Shows options summary.

EXAMPLES

Typical combinations of lolcat include other programs that generate text:
Large colorful words can be written like this:

echo "KTHXBAI" | toilet | lolcat
    

Cows are popular, come in all colors, and tell random epigrams:

fortune | cowsay | lolcat -a
    

SEE ALSO

cat(1), toilet(1), fortune(6), cowsay(6)

AUTHOR

lolcat was written by Moe <moe@busyloop.net>.

This manual page was originally written by chrysn <chrysn@fsfe.org>, for the Debian project.
Very quickly revamped by Mathieu Aubin <mathieu@zeroserieux.com> to include as part of official code repository.

April 4, 2019