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Bash - ASCII art

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Christophe
Markdown, WSL and Docker lover ~ PHP developer ~ Insatiable curious.

Bash - ASCII art

I write a lot of Bash scripts, and I like to have a similar approach for each one. One of the things I always do is to include a good old-fashioned ASCII Art banner, perhaps for the geek factor, but mostly to make a bigger visual impact.

I use https://patorjk.com/software/taag to create my banners, so let's take a closer look.

Sample ASCII art

On my hand, I'm implementing the banner like this:

#!/usr/bin/env bash

function __main() {

clear

# http://patorjk.com/software/taag/#p=display&f=Big&t=My%20Nice%20Script
cat <<\EOF
__ __ _ _ _ _____ _ _
| \/ | | \ | (_) / ____| (_) | |
| \ / |_ _ | \| |_ ___ ___ | (___ ___ _ __ _ _ __ | |_
| |\/| | | | | | . ` | |/ __/ _ \ \___ \ / __| '__| | '_ \| __|
| | | | |_| | | |\ | | (_| __/ ____) | (__| | | | |_) | |_
|_| |_|\__, | |_| \_|_|\___\___| |_____/ \___|_| |_| .__/ \__|
__/ | | |
|___/ |_|

EOF
printf "%s\n\n" "(c) Copyright ..."

# Program the functions of your script here,
# such as calling your functions

return 0
}

__main $*

And this is how it'll look like in my bash terminal:

Terminal