Bashfill – art for your terminal

by yankcrime • 9 years ago

134 30 9 years ago

Neat! Just wish I could draw something worth while...

chowes• 9 years ago

Pretty cool. Just a thought - maybe add an endpoint directly to the shell script? Would be cool to be able to simply `curl max.io/...` and see it

comboy• 9 years ago

Please don't. Why would you want that. Do you really want to put trust in another 3rd party (even if author is great, site can be compromised), just to see some colors in your terminal?

I don't see how do we solve this problem by the way. Most people will always choose convenience over security. And they, as a user, must have some privileges. Even if you ask, they will just go ahead and say yes to get their thing. I understand that. Is there some clever technical fix for this, or do ransomware need to get popular enough to increase users security awareness? It seems to be a really hard problem.

edit: Oh, I'm not very clever, no execution necessary here, just an output from curl. Realized that just after I sent it, but I'm leaving the reply for the second OT part.

philtar• 9 years ago

I choose convenience over security. And so do you. You didn't read every line of every software you use,because it's not convenient.

yzmtf2008• 9 years ago

This is a discussion that’s been had before and a problem that’s been solved before: https://sandstorm.io/news/2015-09-24-is-curl-bash-insecure-p...

As a gist, here’s a quote:

    When you install software on Linux, no matter what package manager you use, you are giving that software permission to act as you.

olalonde• 9 years ago

Kind of unrelated but I wish I could do `curl http://example.com/evil-script.sh | vim | bash` and have vim stop the pipe if I :q! or proceed to forward stdin to stdout if I :wq.

binarymax3• 9 years ago

I thought about that, but then I'd need to support it server side, and right now it's just a static page. For convenience I made you this (requires node): https://github.com/binarymax/bashfill/blob/master/zip2bash.j...

So you can run './zip2bash.js $somebashfillurl | bash' to light it up.

gourneau• 9 years ago

Very cool, can we have image import feature too :)

Tenzer• 9 years ago

Perhaps you can use my command line image printer for something like that: https://github.com/Tenzer/explosion.

hk__23• 9 years ago

You might be interested by img2txt (https://github.com/hit9/img2txt) or libcaca (http://caca.zoy.org/wiki/libcaca). There are a lot of resources in this old HN thread too: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7776112

owendaniel• 9 years ago

pretty cool, can you make the blocks smaller though improve detail?

hk__23• 9 years ago

You can’t. It uses characters for pixels so you have either scale up your terminal or use a graphical image display.

irth• 9 years ago

You can use braille unicode characters for sub-character dots as in https://github.com/rastapasta/mapscii

__jal• 9 years ago

That would be interesting, but first you'd have to write a new terminal type. And then there would be... another step or two.

binarymax3• 9 years ago

If you know that you'll be zoomed way out, and have a big screen, you can fork it and change the dimensions. Terms are 80x23. I made it 40x23 to get squareish blocks. Feel free to go crazy with the dimensions and try it out.

SEJeff2• 9 years ago

For some pretty art on your terminal (this command isn't going to delete anything):

    yes "$(seq 231 -1 16)" | while read i; do printf "\x1b[48;5;${i}mHi $USER\n"; sleep .02; done

Warning: pretty psychedelic colors ^^

akgerber2• 9 years ago

One can always open run this in bash running in a Docker image like so:

  docker run -it ubuntu /bin/bash

SEJeff2• 9 years ago

True, but remember the wise words of Dan Walsh "Containers Don't Contain" in that if you run as root inside of a container without careful consideration, bad users can absolutely break out, just like in a chroot.

http://www.projectatomic.io/blog/2016/01/how-to-run-a-more-s...

http://www.projectatomic.io/blog/2014/09/yet-another-reason-...

In newer docker, the defaults are really good, but even then, it is worth reading up.

pixelbeat__• 9 years ago

If you want to generate html, say for converting to an email you can use http://www.pixelbeat.org/scripts/ansi2html.sh

For example:

    your_script | ansi2html.sh --bg=dark > blah.html

    your_script | ansi2html.sh | mail -a "Content-Type: text/html" Your@email.com

binarymax3• 9 years ago

Howdy all. I posted this on lobste.rs and it kinda took off. Glad to see it here again after all these years.

Ask me anything. And feature/pull requests can be made here: https://github.com/binarymax/bashfill

Happy bashfilling!

Lorin• 9 years ago

Here's a piece I threw together - Stormy beach, use as you may.

https://max.io/bash.html?zip=eDE1eTF4MjRlMXgzeTF4MzB5MXg1ZTF...

Bashfill – art for your terminal

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